MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax-M2.1 is an open-weights language model from MiniMax, released December 23, 2025. It has 229B parameters (mixture-of-experts, 11B active). The context window is 200K tokens. API price: $0.3 input / $1.2 output per million tokens.
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Can you run MiniMax-M2.1 locally?
The smallest common GPU it runs on is 32 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ1_M, GPU + experts in RAM, roughly 34 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | IQ1_M (experimental) | 31.2 GB | 23.6 GB | ~34 |
Ready-made quantizations on Hugging Face: unsloth/MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF · mradermacher/MiniMax-M2.1-i1-GGUF · bartowski/MiniMaxAI_MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF · AaryanK/MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF · John1604/MiniMax-M2.1-gguf · DevQuasar/MiniMaxAI.MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for MiniMax-M2.1 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
Links
Announcement · Hugging Face: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1
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