MiniMax · Open weights
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax M2.5 is a productivity-focused flagship model that builds on M2.1 with stronger coding and real-world office workflow performance (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), plus better tool-use planning and token efficiency.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.27
- Output
- $1.08
- Cache read
- $0.027
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 204.8K
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 653 tokens
- Longer than 58% of 465 models
Side by side
MiniMax M2.5 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax M2.5MiniMaxThis model | Qwen3.5 27B TEEQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Feb 12, 2026 | Mar 13, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 204.8K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 131.07KBest | 65.54K |
| Average output | 653 tokens | 1.4K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.27Best | $0.30 |
| Output | $1.08Best | $2.40 |
| Cache read | $0.027 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 110.4 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 1.8 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 22.8 | 22.9Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax M2.5
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax M2.522.8
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE22.9
MiniMax M2.5: Better than 55% of 326 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 77.7%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax M2.5: 20.5%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 23.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax M2.5: 84.8%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 85.8%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax M2.5: 71.6%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 75.6%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax M2.5: 34.8%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 32.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax M2.5: 95.3%Top
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 93.9%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%
- Qwen3.5 27B TEE: 77.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 110.4 tok/s
- Faster than 65% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 1.8 s
- Quicker than 80% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 2.9%
- About $0.26 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "minimax/minimax-m2.5",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/minimax-m2.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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