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MiniMax-M2
minimax·minimax/MiniMax-M2·GA·Open weights·minimax series
Efficient open MiniMax model built for coding agents and tool-heavy workflows
At a glance
Official price$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M
Cache read — · MiniMax (minimaxi.com)
Lowest paid$0.20 / $1.00
DevPass (LLM Gateway) Gateway · 2.1× spread
2 more $0 channels
Context196,608
⚠ Providers report 196,608–1,000,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit128,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01-01
Released / updated2025-10-27 / 2025-10-27
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence28.9
Value72
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed89 tok/s
TTFT1.56 s
Value formulaIQ 28.9 ÷ min blended $0.400 = 72
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 18 providers16 with public prices · 2 subscription-covered
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax Token Plan (minimaxi.com) | Gateway | Subscription | — | — | 196,608 | 128,000 | ||
| MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io) | Gateway | Subscription | — | — | 196,608 | 128,000 | ||
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) minimax-m2 | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.00 | $0.03 | — | 196,608 | 128,000 | |
| OpenRouter minimax/minimax-m2 | Gateway | $0.255 | $1.02 | — | — | 204,800 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.17 | $1.53 | $0.085 | — | 200,000 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Hugging Face | Cloud | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 204,800 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| Amazon Bedrock minimax.minimax-m2 | Cloud | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 204,608 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| Merge Gateway minimax/minimax-m2 | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | $0.375 | 204,800 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| ZenMux minimax/minimax-m2 | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | $0.38 | 204,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Ofox minimax/minimax-m2 | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | $0.375 | 196,608 | 128,000 | |
| MiniMax (minimaxi.com)Official | First-party | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 196,608 | 128,000 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1DevPass (LLM Gateway)$69.60
2Merge Gateway$87.60
3ZenMux$87.60
4Ofox$87.60
5Vercel AI Gateway$87.60
6NovitaAI$87.60
11MiniMax (minimaxi.com) · Official$120.00
2 more channels offer $0 (MiniMax Token Plan (minimaxi.com), MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to DevPass (LLM Gateway) to save $50.40/mo (42%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 69.4 | resolved | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = max
15 / 18 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Related models
MiniMax H3same series—MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5same series$0.30 / $1.20MiniMax-M3same series$0.30 / $1.20DeepSeek V4 Flashcheaper alternative$0.14 / $0.28GPT-5 Nanocheaper alternative$0.05 / $0.40GLM-4.7-Flashcheaper alternative$0 / $0MiMo-V2.5cheaper alternative$0.14 / $0.28
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended