MiniMax: MiniMax M2

Public pricingIntelligence 78/100Medium memoryDeep thinkingTool use

MiniMax: MiniMax M2 is a text model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines strong coding performance and reliable tool use and agent behavior with a 197K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when latency, cost, and throughput matters.

Input

$0.26/1M

Output

$1.00/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.15/1M

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Technical specifications

MiniMax M2 at a glance.

Memory

196,608

tokens

Max reply

196,608

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

—

Released

Oct 2025

Training cutoff

Jun 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • mmlu_pro

    82

  • gpqa_diamond

    78

  • swe_bench_verified

    69.4

  • aime_2025

    78

  • livecodebench

    83

  • ifeval

    72

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick MiniMax M2

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, MiniMax M2 costs roughly $59 per month. Input is $0.26 /1M tokens and output is $1.00 /1M tokens.
MiniMax M2 has a 196,608-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 36,864 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, MiniMax M2 supports deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
MiniMax M2 was released in October 2025, with training data cut off around June 2025.
Models in a similar class include MiniMax M2.1, MiniMax M2-her, MiniMax M2.7. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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