MiniMax M2

Newer version available: MiniMax M3

Released
2025-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 28d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use
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Specifications
Released
2025-10-01
Context
197K
Parameters
230B (10B active)
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Created by
MiniMax

Developing AI for gaming and entertainment.

Minhang, Shanghai, China
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.900
Input / 1M
$0.900

Cheapest of 5 routes · Fireworks AI

Providers(5)
Fireworks AIAWS BedrockOpenRouterVercel AI GatewayNovita AI
View 5 provider routes
Links
Website

About

MiniMax M2 is a language model from MiniMax. It offers a 197K-token context window.

Providers(5)

Compare all 5

Compare API pricing across 5 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Fireworks AI$0.900$0.900-
Serverless
Novita AI$0.300$1.20-
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.300$1.20-
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$0.300$1.20read $0.030
Serverless
AWS Bedrock$0.400$1.60-
Serverless
Scheduled retirement: March 30, 2027

Available via routers & gateways(2)

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeFireworks AI

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).

Passthrough + feeAWS Bedrock

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(2)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
Chatbot Arena
1344.0text_style_control overall 2026-10-22 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: MiniMax-M2
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'MiniMax-M2': rank 229, Arena Score 1343.6 (95% CI 1335.8-1351.3), 6855 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

LMArena Text Arena - Creative Writing
1287.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: MiniMax-M2
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'MiniMax-M2' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 236 of 416, rating 1286.5 (95% CI 1266.5-1306.6), 895 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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