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MiniMax · MiniMax M2

MiniMax-M2.7

Open weightsSupersededcustom (non-commercial per Artificial Analysis)

Previous MiniMax text model (230B/10B). Still sold at the same per-token price as M3.

AA Intelligence
23#60 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.30/ $1.20
Output speed
61tok/s
Context window
205K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#60 of 142
    23independentv4.3.2, reasoningArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#69 of 88
    0%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#53 of 103
    55.4%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#41 of 94
    50.1%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#27 of 88
    84.8%independenttelecom, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#54 of 103
    999independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoningArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#48 of 142
    87.4%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#56 of 147
    29.6%independentreasoning, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#75 of 139
    0.6%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#46 of 139
    78.3%independentreasoning, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#45 of 54
    1415independentarena entry "minimax-m2.7", 69,169 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#47 of 54
    1397independentarena entry "minimax-m2.7", 15,186 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
IFBench (AA) · reasoning75.7%independentArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning39.4%independentArtificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

Specs

Released
March 18, 2026
Parameters
230B total, 10B active
Size class
100 to 500B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
205K tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.06 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$0.57 / 1M
First token
1.55s
  • Price: MiniMax pay-as-you-go pricing ↗ Highspeed variant $0.6 / $2.4.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: MiniMax-M2.7 ↗

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