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MiniMax-01 on Requesty (Cline, Openwebui and more)

Thibault Jaigu
Thibault Jaigu
CEO & Co-Founder
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**MiniMax-01 Is Now Live on Requesty Router! **Easily Integrate MiniMax-Text-01 with Cline, OpenWebUI, and More

Overview

MiniMax has open-sourced the MiniMax-01 family of models—MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01. These models offer advanced performance thanks to a novel Lightning Attention mechanism, scaling to handle up to 4 million tokens. Now, you can integrate these models directly with Requesty Router, which uses OpenAI-compatible endpoints and a single API credential. This seamless setup makes it easy to try MiniMax alongside other large language models through platforms like Cline and OpenWebUI.

Key MiniMax-01 Features

  1. **Lightning Attention **MiniMax-01 incorporates a linear attention approach in most layers, with occasional SoftMax layers for added expressiveness. This combination allows for high-speed handling of very long contexts.
  2. **Scalability **Featuring 456 billion parameters (45.9 billion active per inference), MiniMax-01 is designed for commercial-scale deployments, matching top-tier global models on core benchmarks.
  3. **Ultra-Long Context (Up to 4 Million Tokens) **Long contexts are crucial for advanced AI agent workflows, whether you’re maintaining a single agent’s memory or enabling multi-agent collaboration.
  4. **Open Source + Competitive Pricing **Model weights are available via GitHub, and API rates are set at $0.2 per million input tokens and $1.1 per million output tokens via the MiniMax Platform.

Integrating MiniMax-01 with Requesty Router

Requesty Router consolidates over 50 language models under one API key. If you already use Requesty, simply add the MiniMax endpoint to your existing setup:

  1. Obtain Access
  • Sign up for the MiniMax Open Platform or visit their GitHub for open-source access.
  1. Add to Requesty Router
  • In your Requesty Router admin panel, create a new OpenAI-compatible connection.
  • Paste your Requesty API key, set the endpoint for MiniMax, and save your configuration.
  1. Use in Cline or OpenWebUI
  • Cline: Point your coding workflow or AI assistant tasks to the newly added MiniMax endpoint.
  • OpenWebUI: Switch between MiniMax-01 and other models in real time to compare responses on the same query.

Why Combine MiniMax-01 with Requesty Router?

  1. **One Key, Multiple Models **Eliminate the need to juggle several credentials. Use a single Requesty key to access MiniMax-01, GPT, Claude, and many others.
  2. **Flexible Workflows **Cline and OpenWebUI users can try out advanced coding or chat tasks with MiniMax, then switch to another model if needed.
  3. **Unified Billing **Track usage and manage your budget in one place. Gain better visibility into costs across different models.
  4. **Seamless Deployment **Requesty follows the OpenAI-style API standard, making it simple to integrate MiniMax-01 into your existing projects and pipelines.

Getting Started

  1. **Read the Tech Report **See the MiniMax-01 Report for performance details and architecture insights.
  2. **Clone the Repos **Check out the open-source code and weights on MiniMax’s GitHub.
  3. **Configure Requesty Router **Enable MiniMax-01 as a new endpoint. Make sure to keep your single API key ready for immediate use.
  4. Start Experimenting
  • Code Generation: Use Cline with MiniMax-Text-01 to generate or debug complex scripts.
  • Multimodal Projects: Run image-based tasks with MiniMax-VL-01 in the same environment.
  • Side-by-Side Comparisons: In OpenWebUI, run the same prompt against multiple models and evaluate results.

Conclusion

With MiniMax-01 now open-sourced and accessible through Requesty Router, you have an efficient way to experiment with ultra-long context models. Integrate MiniMax-Text-01 or MiniMax-VL-01 into your AI workflows with a single key—no extra setup. Whether you’re building a single AI agent with deep memory or orchestrating multi-agent environments, MiniMax-01 offers robust performance at scale.

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