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MiniMax M2.5

Added Feb 12, 2026Open weights

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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

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MiniMax M2.5MiniMaxThis modelGPT 5OpenAIRemove
ProviderMiniMaxOpenAI
Discovery tierOpen weightsFrontier
AddedFeb 12, 2026Aug 7, 2025
Limits
Context window204.8K400KBest
Max output131.07KBest128K
Average output653 tokens411 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.27Best$1.25
Output$1.08Best$10.00
Cache read$0.027Best$0.13
Performance
Throughput110.4 tok/s—
Time to first token1.8 s—
Request success (24h)100.0%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index22.823.0Best
Coding Index—37.8
Math Index—94.3
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Reasoning effort—minimal, low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • MiniMax M2.5
  • GPT 5

Intelligence Index

  • MiniMax M2.522.8
  • GPT 523.0

MiniMax M2.5: Better than 55% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 37.8

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 94.3

Agentic work

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 918 Elo

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%
    • GPT 5: 78.2%Top

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • MiniMax M2.5: 20.5%
    • GPT 5: 28.5%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • MiniMax M2.5: 84.8%
    • GPT 5: 85.4%Top

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 87.1%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • MiniMax M2.5: 71.6%
    • GPT 5: 73.1%Top

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 84.6%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 94.3%

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 95.7%

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • MiniMax M2.5: —
    • GPT 5: 99.4%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • MiniMax M2.5: 34.8%Top
    • GPT 5: 32.6%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • MiniMax M2.5: 95.3%Top
    • GPT 5: 84.8%

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • MiniMax M2.5: 73.3%
    • GPT 5: 78.2%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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 16.6%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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