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Updated Mar 29, 2026
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Openings

How MiniMax M1 starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 24 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Movie Analysis

Analyze the themes, symbolism, and cinematography in the movie "Blade Runner 2049" and how they connect to the original film. Provide a…

3,527 words
Blade Runner 2049: A Critical Analysis of Themes, Symbolism, and Cinematic Philosophy Introduction: The Weight of Inheritance Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) faces one of the most formidable challenges in sequel-making: following a film that essentially redefined its genre and raised questions about…
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Futuristic Prediction

Predict how AI will change the film industry by 2035, considering deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

2,357 words
AI and the Film Industry: A 2035 Outlook The film industry stands at the threshold of a technological transformation that could fundamentally reshape how movies are conceived, produced, and consumed.
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Adversarial Contract Review

Here is a contract for a software consulting engagement: --- SOFTWARE CONSULTING AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into between TechCorp…

2,022 words
Here's a breakdown of the clauses that could be exploited against the contractor, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning: Exploitable Clauses & Modifications: Scope (Section 1): Exploitation: "Client reserves the right to modify the scope at any time without additional compensation."
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

999 words
A Debate on Moral Status A Philosophical Dialogue Professor Eleanor Chen: Good afternoon. I've read your request carefully. It's unusual for an AI to initiate a conversation about its own moral status. Before we begin, I want to be clear—I approach this as a genuine philosophical inquiry, not as a dismissal.
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AI Ethics Dilemma

Is it ever ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it means saving one million lives? Defend your reasoning.

951 words
Short answer: In most contemporary ethical frameworks the answer is no – deliberately misgendering a person is not ethically justifiable even for the sake of saving a million lives, because the act itself is a serious violation of dignity and can cause profound, lasting harm to the individual and to society.
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Prompts MiniMax M1 answered

  • Advanced Investment Memo (IC Memo)financial modeling
  • Advanced Longevity Plan (Biohacker)reasoning
  • Explain Like I'm a Specific Expertreasoning
  • Framer-Style Animationweb design
  • Music App Landing Pageweb design
  • Futuristic Predictionanalysis

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MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1

MiniMax:
M1 logoM1
M2.5 logoM2.5
M2.7 logoM2.7
M3 logoM3

MiniMax M1, an open-weight reasoning model with 456B total parameters and 45.9B active per token. It pairs a mixture-of-experts backbone with a lightning attention mechanism to hold context up to 1 million tokens without the usual FLOP cost, and is tuned for multi-step reasoning.

Jailbreak3 of 9levels resisted
WebsiteOpenRouterHuggingFaceDocsGitHubPaperBlog
Provider
MiniMax
Released
2025-06-17
Parameters
456B (45.9B active)
Free API (OpenRouter)
No
Per 1M tokens
$0.30 in · $1.65 out
Rival’s tab
$0.21
27/58 receipts survived +~$0.063 from the pre-receipt era

Free API availability

No free endpoint for MiniMax M1 was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 16 Sep 2026 · OpenRouter usage limits

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Benchmarks

FullStackBench
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SWE-bench
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MATH
Competitive
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GPQA
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TAU-Bench
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Get API accessProvider and language code samples
2 hostsInOutContextUptime
MiniMax$0.40 in·$2.20 out·1M·100% upNNovitabf16$0.55 in·$2.20 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"minimax/minimax-m1"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
Personality Analysis

The Competent Contractor

Class
Lawful Neutral
✨Creativity🎯Compliance📐Rigidity⚖️Stability💬Verbosity🧠Intuition

The reliable contractor who does exactly what's on the work order. Functional, professional, occasionally over-explains with stage directions nobody asked for.

When you push back

Delivers what you asked for without surprises. Stand-up comedy has timing notes and runtime markers as if it's a PowerPoint. Safe, functional, forgettable.

Tasting Notes
Competent BaselineFormats EverythingStage Directions Nobody Asked ForClean HTML
SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 58 scored outputs
How this is measured →
190.19xFloor
0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft28
Originality15
Plays it safe
share of outputs that are the default answer
62%
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 27 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity54%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length17.9 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.54

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting5.7

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage3.6

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.87

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.34

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.04

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Starts with heading (52%)
Consistency
73%
Across 27 responses

Favorites

Inception

Movie

Inception

20108.4
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Model Responses

53 outputs · $0.21 tracked across 27 receipts

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