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MiniMax · MiniMax M2

MiniMax-M2

Open weightsDeprecatedModified MIT

Legacy MiniMax MoE (230B/10B). Replace it with MiniMax-M3, which costs the same per token.

AA Intelligence
19#69 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.30/ $1.20
Output speed
100tok/s
Context window
205K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#69 of 142
    19independentv4.3.2, reasoning (AA-estimated)Artificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench#7 of 56
    82.6%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#23 of 88
    86.8%independenttelecom, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#77 of 142
    77.7%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#83 of 147
    13.7%independentreasoning, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#71 of 139
    0.9%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#80 of 139
    64.3%independentreasoning, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#51 of 54
    1346independentarena entry "minimax-m2", 6,753 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#53 of 54
    1298independentarena entry "minimax-m2", 6,544 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
aime-2025 · reasoning, AA-run78.3%independentArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗
IFBench (AA) · reasoning72.3%independentArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning25.8%independentArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

Specs

Released
October 26, 2025
Parameters
230B total, 10B active
Size class
100 to 500B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
205K tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.03 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$0.57 / 1M
First token
1.48s
  • Price: MiniMax pay-as-you-go pricing ↗ Listed under Legacy Models.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2 ↗

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