MiniMax-M1-80k: benchmark scores, price and ranking

MiniMax-M1-80k from MiniMax ranks #160 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (50.9), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: MiniMax
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2025-06-13 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.550 in / $2.20 out per million tokens (via novita, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #160 of 743 (score 50.9)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, MiniMax-M1-80k is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.550 per million tokens, is lower than that of 47% of the 427 models with a listed price.

MiniMax-M1-80k benchmark results

MiniMax-M1-80k benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Fiction.liveBench	69.4%	#12 of 47	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About MiniMax-M1-80k

MiniMax-M1-80k is a frontier model from MiniMax. It was released on 2025-06-13, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.550 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens, through novita. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where MiniMax-M1-80k stands

On our aggregate score, MiniMax-M1-80k is #160 of 743 ranked models, in the top quarter. Its score is 50.9; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.9 points above the typical model. That beats 78% of the ranked field. Among the 6 ranked MiniMax models it is #1. The next one down is MiniMax-M2.1 at 49.9.

MiniMax-M1-80k, benchmark by benchmark

Fiction.liveBench puts MiniMax-M1-80k at 69.4%, #12 of 47. That beats 74% of the models tested, but 25.0 points short of grok-4-0709 (94.4%). The results either side are DeepSeek-R1 (69.4%) and qwen3-235b-a22b (67.7%). It covers long-context story comprehension (16k). The board median is 61.1%, so MiniMax-M1-80k is 8.3 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so MiniMax-M1-80k costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1), GLM-5.3-Flash (max) ($0.026, 49.6). Similar scores cost more on DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale ($0.580) and GLM-5 ($0.600).

Release history

The next one was MiniMax-M2 on 2025-10-27, at 48.7.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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