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MiniMax M2.5

Name: MiniMax M2.5
Brand: MiniMax
Price: 0.270000 USD

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MiniMax's flagship hybrid lightning-attention model. 1M-token context with strong Chinese coverage and competitive frontier pricing.

MiniMax M2.5 is a frontier AI model from MiniMax. It costs $0.270 per million input tokens and $1.080 per million output tokens (blended $0.513/M), with a 204,800-token context window.

Profile inherited from upstream MiniMax-Text-01 (M2 generation) ↗ — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model.

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INPUT

$0.270/M

per million input tokens

OUTPUT

$1.080/M

per million output tokens

BLENDED 70/30

$0.513/M

unchanged since 3 May

default reference rate · how it is calculated →

CONTEXT

204,800

tokens

What it is good at

1M context
Lightning attention (linear-time)
Chinese-tuned
Competitive frontier quality

Typical use cases

Long Chinese document RAG
Cheap long-context inference
Multilingual chat

Benchmarks

vs. best public score

Scores inherited from MiniMax-Text-01 (M2 generation) — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model, so the underlying benchmark scores are identical.

MMLU82%

Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.

MATH78%

High-school competition math problems.

HumanEval80%

Python function synthesis from docstrings.

LMArena Elo1232 Elo

Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.

Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.