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MiniMax Text 01 API: 1M Context Window at $0.36/M Tokens
April 16, 2026 · 4 min read
MiniMax Text 01 offers one of the largest context windows available — 1 million tokens — at just $0.36/$1.44 per million tokens. That's 5x cheaper than Gemini 2.5 Pro for long-context tasks.
1M Context: What Can You Do?
- Entire codebases — analyze a full repository in one API call
- Books — summarize or Q&A over a 400-page book
- Legal documents — review contracts spanning hundreds of pages
- Research papers — cross-reference 50+ papers simultaneously
Price Comparison: 1M Context Models
| Model | Context | Input $/M | Output $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax Text 01 | 1M | $0.35 | $1.38 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 1M | $0.35 | $2.88 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | 1M | $1.44 | $11.50 |
| Claude Opus | 200K | $5.75 | $28.75 |
Quick Start
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.aipower.me/v1", api_key="YOUR_KEY")
# MiniMax Text 01 — 1M context
r = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/minimax-text-01",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Analyze this entire codebase: " + code},
],
)Try MiniMax and all 16 models at aipower.me. 10 free API calls.
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Who should use AIPower?
- • Developers needing both Chinese and Western AI models
- • Chinese teams that can't access OpenAI / Anthropic directly
- • Startups wanting multi-model redundancy through one API
- • Anyone tired of paying grey-market intermediary premiums
3 steps to first API call
- Sign up — email only, 10 free trial calls, no card
- Copy your API key from the dashboard
- Change
base_urlin your OpenAI SDK → done
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aipower.me/v1", # ← only change
api_key="sk-your-aipower-key",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="auto-cheap", # or anthropic/claude-opus, deepseek/deepseek-chat, openai/gpt-5, etc.
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
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