Efficient open MiniMax model built for coding agents and tool-heavy workflows
MiniMax-M2 is offered by 20 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 17 of them. Its official list price is $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is DevPass (LLM Gateway) at $0.20 / $1.00 per 1M, about 2.1× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 18.6 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.40 per 1M, that is roughly 47 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 98 tokens per second, with 1.42s to the first token.
The context window is 204,800 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 196,608 to 1,000,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-01-01.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io) MiniMax-M2 | Gateway | Subscription | — | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | ||
| MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.cn) MiniMax-M2 | Gateway | Subscription | — | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | ||
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.00 | $0.03 | — | 196,608 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.00 | $0.03 | — | 196,608 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.17 | $1.53 | $0.085 | — | 200,000 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 196,608 ⚠ | 176,947 | |
| NovitaAI | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 204,800 | 176,947 | |
| ZenMux | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | $0.38 | 204,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Hugging Face MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2 | Cloud | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | |
| MiniMax (minimax.cn)Official MiniMax-M2 | First-party | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | |
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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 5 of 20 providers.
14 / 20 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
2 more channels offer $0 (MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io), MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.cn)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| 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.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.