MiniMax M2.1 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: MiniMax M2.1
Author: MiniMax

open weights · top 10 on 1 of 1 · released Dec 20, 2025

Provider: MiniMax
Release date: Dec 20, 2025; Hugging Face
Parameters: 229B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Text; Hugging Face
License: Modified MIT; Hugging Face
Hosting: AWS Bedrock (13 regions) · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 230 GB of weights as published (F8 E4M3), about 229 GB at 8-bit, about 114 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
6	MMLU-ProReasoning · stale since 2026-03-11 · as “MiniMax-M2.1”	Reasoning	88.0%	100

Versions and release history

6 versions in this line since Jun 5, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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