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MiniMax · Released Oct 27, 2025

MiniMax-M2

Efficient open MiniMax model built for coding agents and tool-heavy workflows.

  • Open weights
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.30per 1M tokens
Output
$1.20per 1M tokens
Context
205K131K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.30per million tokens
Output
$1.20per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.525cheaper than 59% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$1.20
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$13.50
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$135.00

Official MiniMax (minimax.io) API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for MiniMax-M2 yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
MiniMax
Released
Oct 27, 2025
Context window
204,800 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Inputs
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Always on
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
API model ID
MiniMax-M2on MiniMax (minimax.io)
Availability
13 API providerslisted on models.dev

MiniMax (minimax.io) model documentation

Lab-reported

What MiniMax claims

Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.

BenchmarkScoreSettingSource
SWE-Bench Verified69.4 resolved—Source
Same lab

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Questions

About MiniMax-M2

How much does MiniMax-M2 cost?

MiniMax-M2 costs $0.30 input / $1.20 output per million tokens (official MiniMax (minimax.io) API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.525 per million tokens, cheaper than 59% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of MiniMax-M2?

MiniMax-M2 accepts up to 204,800 tokens per request and can write up to 131,072 tokens in one response.

How good is MiniMax-M2?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for MiniMax-M2 yet.

Is MiniMax-M2 open source?

Yes. MiniMax publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What inputs does MiniMax-M2 support?

MiniMax-M2 accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was MiniMax-M2 released?

MiniMax released MiniMax-M2 on Oct 27, 2025.

What are the best alternatives to MiniMax-M2?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Qwen3-VL Plus (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.20 / $1.60), GLM-4.6V (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.30 / $0.90), GPT-5.1 Codex mini (OpenAI, $0.25 / $2.00) and Seed 1.6 (ByteDance Seed, $0.119 / $1.19).