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MiniMax — a long context for very little

MiniMax text models in GPTunneL: hundreds of thousands of tokens of context, reasoning and open weights at a low price. Pay per token, no VPN.

What the MiniMax family is good at

The traits MiniMax keeps from generation to generation — you can count on them whichever model you pick.

Below market price

The main reason people pick this family: with a long context and reasoning, it costs about what competitors charge for compact models.

A long context

The top model holds hundreds of thousands of tokens — a folder of documents or a large project in full, with no slicing into chunks.

Reads images and video

The current generation is multimodal — an attached screenshot, diagram or clip is read alongside the text of the request.

Open weights

MiniMax publishes the weights under a free licence, so the models can be run on your own hardware. In GPTunneL they are available without any hardware of your own.

Which model to pick

Three current tiers in the family — for different tasks and budgets.

MiniMax 2.5Throughput and speedMiniMax 3The default pickMiniMax 2.7The proven generation
Best forSimple requests, classification, auto-repliesHard reasoning, long documents, images and videoEveryday tasks where the result is already dialled in
Context205K tokens524K tokens205K tokens
Reasoning and multimodalityNoYesNo
Price per tokenLowestLowLowest

Specs come from the platform catalogue. Exact per-model prices are on the Pricing

Every MiniMax text model

Release dates follow MiniMax's official announcements.

June 2026

MiniMax 3

The current generation: it reads images and video alongside text, can reason, and holds hundreds of thousands of tokens in context. The weights are published under a free licence.

April 2026

MiniMax 2.7

The previous generation — noticeably cheaper than the top model, with a context of around two hundred thousand tokens.

2025

MiniMax 2.5MiniMax 2.1

The early models of the family: this is where MiniMax started offering text models well below the market price.

How billing works

There is no subscription: you top up one balance and spend it on any model on the platform.

Pay per token

You are charged for exactly what the request and the answer used. Not using it costs nothing: no limits, no monthly fee.

One balance for every model

MiniMax, ChatGPT, Claude, image and video generation — all out of the same wallet. No separate subscription per service.

Top up the way you prefer

International cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay or crypto. The minimum top-up is $5.

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How to start with MiniMax

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One account for every model on the platform.
Compare these two versions of the contract and list what changed against us
v1.pdfv2.pdfMiniMax 3
What changed in the contract

The payment term went from ten to thirty working days, and it now runs from the signing of the acceptance act rather than from sending it.

A no-cause unilateral termination on five days' notice appeared — previously termination was by mutual agreement only.

The liability cap dropped to one monthly payment, while the late-payment penalty on our side stayed the same.

Sign in whichever way suits you.

The model switches right inside the input — you can change it mid-conversation.

The answer arrives in the chat and the context is kept until the conversation ends.

Try MiniMax in GPTunneL

Signing up takes a minute, and $5 on the balance is enough to see whether the model fits your task.

Frequently asked questions

No. Requests go through GPTunneL's infrastructure, so the models open like any ordinary website — no VPN and no proxy.

MiniMax is the text model family from the Chinese company MiniMax. On the market it stands out on the ratio of capability to price: a long context, reasoning and image understanding cost roughly what competitors charge for compact models.

The current MiniMax 3 generation is multimodal — it reads images and video alongside text, can reason, and holds hundreds of thousands of tokens in context. The company publishes the weights under a free licence, so the models can also be run on your own hardware.

The same company has the Hailuo video family, covered on its own page and running off the same balance. In GPTunneL the MiniMax text models are available worldwide, without a VPN, with one balance and billing for the tokens you actually spend.