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MiniMaxAI Apache 2.0 out 16 months ago

456B parameters (2 of 32 experts per token), text in, text out, 9.8M tokens of context. 1 provider serves it from $0.55 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #653 in LLMs · score 73.1 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 1.8k · #582 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?274GB at INT4Estimateneeds a multi-GPU nodemethod
What does it cost?$0.55/1M incheapest of 1Novita2026-10-25
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?1.8kdownloads, 30 days#582 of 619 we track · below the median+0 likes, downloads +8% this week692 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 2 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 349 HN pts

MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

MiniMax-M1 is the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.

  • The evaluation of SWE-bench Verified excludes 14 specific test cases incompatible with the internal infrastructure.
  • The SWE-bench Verified score for MiniMax-M1-80K is 56.0, while DeepSeek-R1 achieves 57.6 on the same task.
github.com 2025-06-17 349 HN pts · 75 comments 1.4k words about the MiniMax M1 family family

2 best of 2 tracked

The 1 pick above, plus these 1. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleMiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek plus true open-sourcetheregister.com · 2025-06-18 · 8 HN pts

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Novita $0.55 $2.20 977K — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider.

  • As a service1Novita
  • On own hardware0quantized builds
  • Built on62 fine-tunes · 4 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps41Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: mgbam/builder ♥ 5 · arunjayzui/MiniMaxAI-MiniMax-M1-80k ♥ 3 · lindembergue/MiniMaxAI-MiniMax-M1-80k ♥ 1 · xereon/MiniMaxAI-MiniMax-M1-80k ♥ 1

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Needs an 8×80 GB node even at INT4

About 274 GB at INT4, 547 GB at FP8, 1.09 TB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 274 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4274 GBFP8: about 547 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8547 GBBF16: about 1.09 TB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF161.09 TB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 274 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4274 GBFP8: about 547 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8547 GBBF16: about 1.09 TB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF161.09 TB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

2 dated articles and 24 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-06-13), amber triangles are 2 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-07: 2 repo commits2025-07-06: 4 repo commits2025-07-03: 1 repo commit2025-06-24: 1 repo commit2025-06-18: 1 repo commit2025-06-17: 3 repo commits2025-06-16: 9 repo commits2025-06-14: 2 repo commits2025-06-13: 1 repo commitMiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model · 2025-06-17MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek plus true open-source · 2025-06-18Weights 2025-06-13 · 2025-06-13Weights 2025-06-13now · 1 provider
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-07: 2 repo commits2025-07-06: 4 repo commits2025-07-03: 1 repo commit2025-06-24: 1 repo commit2025-06-18: 1 repo commit2025-06-17: 3 repo commits2025-06-16: 9 repo commits2025-06-14: 2 repo commits2025-06-13: 1 repo commitMiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model · 2025-06-17MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek plus true open-source · 2025-06-18Weights 2025-06-13 · 2025-06-13Weights 2025-06-13now · 1 provider

What people built on it

6 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

6 derivatives on the Hub, most of them adapters

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

2 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)2 fine-tunes4 adapters
2 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)2 fine-tunes4 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

3 use cases

What it is good at 3 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesMiniMaxM1ForCausalLM
Model typeminimax_m1
Params by dtypeBF16: 456,073,926,656 · F32: 15,728,640
Size bandXXL
MoEyes
Experts32
Experts per token2
Context length10,240,000 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2506.13585
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: not in registry · MiniMaxM1ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: not in registry · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for MiniMax-M1-80k: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)1.09 TB · Cluster (≥640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)547 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)274 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

6 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1 6 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 2adapter: 4

Top variants (6 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
6 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
yourleige/test_model_upload finetune — 596M S apache-2.0 yourleige 0 99
crystalai/thoth-auto-train-cybersecurity-shield-testing-app adapter — — — c-uda crystalai 1 0
rezivor/KEno finetune — — — lppl-1.3c rezivor 0 0
Agente7/AI777 adapter — — — apache-2.0 Agente7 0 0
Thennarasu87/ThinksGPTAi adapter — — — apache-2.0 Thennarasu87 0 0
Mfonkown/Zark_2.0 adapter — — — — Mfonkown 0 0

Repository changelog

24 commits

Repository changelog 24 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-07-07 Update docs/function_call_guide.md 8d1494b
2025-07-07 Update docs/function_call_guide_cn.md 034cfed
2025-07-06 Update docs/vllm_deployment_guide_cn.md ca5c87d
2025-07-06 Update README.md 5be03aa
2025-07-06 Update docs/vllm_deployment_guide.md 279327a
2025-07-06 Update docs/vllm_deployment_guide_cn.md fa9d550
2025-07-03 update README df92e6f
2025-06-24 Updated library_name and tags (#11) 3de1bb5
2025-06-18 add usage recommendation 9f2f5a2
2025-06-17 Update docs/transformers_deployment_guide_cn.md 9b16d71
2025-06-17 Update docs/transformers_deployment_guide.md 2eb214f
2025-06-17 update arxiv paper link d87af95
2025-06-16 update README 3fbe879
2025-06-16 update vllm guide 86a3c57
2025-06-16 update README 657bd6c
2025-06-16 update README d72937b
2025-06-16 Upload MiniMax_M1_tech_report.pdf 6da552b
2025-06-16 update README.md and docs 5856a65
2025-06-16 update README and vllm guide 218ef2f
2025-06-16 Update vllm_deployment_guide_cn.md fe24186
2025-06-16 Update vllm_deployment_guide.md 49bc30d
2025-06-14 upload config files f8a8008
2025-06-14 add weights 87724ce
2025-06-13 initial commit 8b239fb

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for MiniMax-M1-80k, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.55/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Novita
hf
minimaxai/minimax-m1-80k 977K — $0.55 $2.20 52.8 951 ms yes live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

2 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Analysis2

github.com2025-06-17authorityHN front pageabout the MiniMax M1 familyHN 349 pts · 75 comments1,401 words
MiniMax-M1 is the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. The model contains 456 billion parameters with 45.9 billion parameters activated per token and natively supports a context length of 1 million tokens. It utilizes a novel CISPO algorithm for reinforcement learning and offers versions with 40K and 80K thinking budgets, consuming 25% of the FLOPs compared to DeepSeek R1 at 100K token generation.written, reviewed, cited
  • The evaluation of SWE-bench Verified excludes 14 specific test cases incompatible with the internal infrastructure.
  • The SWE-bench Verified score for MiniMax-M1-80K is 56.0, while DeepSeek-R1 achieves 57.6 on the same task.
  • The HLE benchmark result for MiniMax-M1-80K is 8.4, marked as conducted on the text-only HLE subset.
theregister.com2025-06-18about the MiniMax M1 familyHN 8 pts · 0 comments

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

arXiv links found in the model card and its tags. "Peer-reviewed" is shown only with evidence: a published venue in OpenAlex (measured) or the authors' own journal reference on arXiv (reported).

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Sources

3 sources

Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:42 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:13 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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