MiniMax-Text-01 API Guide: 456B Model with 1M Context Window

MiniMax-Text-01 is one of the most impressive large language models you might not have heard of. With 456 billion parameters and a context window of 1 million tokens, it excels at tasks that require processing very long documents.

Key Specs

Best Use Cases

• Long document analysis — process entire books, legal contracts, or research papers in one call
• Creative writing — generate long-form content with excellent coherence
• Complex reasoning — multi-step logic problems that benefit from large context
• Code review — analyze entire codebases in a single prompt

Quick Start

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="your-novai-api-key",
    base_url="https://aiapi-pro.com/v1"
)

# Example: Summarize a very long document
long_document = open("my_document.txt").read()  # Can be hundreds of pages

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax-text-01",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a document analysis assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": f"Summarize this document:\n\n{long_document}"}
    ],
    max_tokens=4096
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

MiniMax vs Other Long-Context Models

MiniMax offers the longest context at the lowest price — $0.20/1M input tokens is 6x cheaper than Gemini and 15x cheaper than GPT.