MiniMax · Open weights
MiniMax M2
MiniMax M2 offers enhanced reasoning and strong general performance. Optimized for coding and agentic workflows.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.17
- Output
- $1.53
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 131.1K
Side by side
MiniMax M2 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax M2MiniMaxThis model | MiniMax M2.7MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 12, 2025 | Mar 18, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 200K | 204.8KBest |
| Max output | 131.07K | 131.07K |
| Average output | — | 556 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.17Best | $0.21 |
| Output | $1.53 | $0.84Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.042 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 24.3 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 0.9 s |
| Request success (24h) | 90.3% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 22.8 |
| Coding Index | — | 52.6 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax M2
- MiniMax M2.7
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax M2—
- MiniMax M2.722.8
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 52.6
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 4.4%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 0.3%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 718 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 1,008 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 6.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 78.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 5.6%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 29.6%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 87.4%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 75.7%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 50.1%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 39.4%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 84.8%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax M2: —
- MiniMax M2.7: 78.3%
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.
- Request success (24h)
- 90.3%
- Unstable
- 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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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