# MiniMax — models, pricing & selection | Y-API

> MiniMax appears on Y-API with M2.7, a free text-only entry positioned around agentic productivity — debugging, root-cause analysis and multi-step professional work — inside the shortest context window in the catalog at 204,800 tokens.

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Vendor scope: 1 reviewed model.

Sources reviewed: 2026-10-04. Y-API catalog snapshot: 2026-10-04.

## About this vendor

Vendor-level selection advice by Y-API. The per-model pages linked below carry the model-specific checks; nothing here is a measured comparison.

### Where this vendor fits

As one of the catalog’s free entries, M2.7 is a zero-cost candidate for text workloads that fit comfortably in 200k tokens and reward an instruction-following style: incident triage, plan drafting, tool-driven maintenance scripts.

### What to watch for

Free pricing says nothing about capacity or permanence, and the shorter window forces architecture decisions earlier: retrieval or summarization becomes mandatory where the million-token entries just fit the document in.

## Models on Y-API

Prices are account-credit snapshots from the Y-API catalog. Each model links to its own guide with a cost estimator and a request example.

| Model | Context window | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [MiniMax M2.7](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/minimax/minimax-m2.7) | 204,800 | Free — no credit deducted | Free — no credit deducted |

$1 paid adds $10 of credit; the cash equivalent is credit consumed ÷ 10. These are Y-API prices, not the publisher’s list prices.

## Choosing within the lineup

With one MiniMax entry, compare against the other free models — DeepSeek V4 Flash and Tencent Hy3 — on your actual task length. If inputs routinely exceed roughly 150k tokens, shortlist the million-window entries instead.

## Before you choose

### Is MiniMax M2.7 really free on Y-API?

The current catalog marks it free: calls do not deduct credit. That is today’s snapshot, not a promise of unlimited capacity or permanent availability, and the upstream can withdraw free status at any time.

## Sources & scope

Vendor scope on this site is exactly the reviewed model guides listed above; a vendor page exists only while at least one of its models is reviewed. Claims about architecture or positioning follow the cited pages. We do not publish measured latency, uptime or benchmark scores for any vendor.

- [OpenRouter vendor page](https://openrouter.ai/minimax)
- [Publisher organization on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI)
- [Y-API catalog & prices (JSON)](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models.json)

## Links

- HTML version of this page: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/minimax
- Site index for agents: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/llms.txt
- Full reference (single file): https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/llms-full.txt
- OpenAPI 3.1 spec: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/openapi.json
- Model catalog (JSON, no key needed): https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models.json
- API base URL: `https://api.y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/v1`
- Contact: support@bestvirtualgoods.com
- Model catalog: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models
- Integration guide: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/docs