Models › MiniMax-M2.5 family

MiniMaxAI MiniMax (Modified MIT) (modified-mit) out 8 months ago

229B parameters (8 of 256 experts per token), text in, text out, 192K tokens of context. 8 providers serve it from $0.27 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #42 in LLMs · score 109.1 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 992.9k · #109 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?137GB at INT4Estimatefits 2×80 GBmethod
What does it cost?$0.27/1M incheapest of 7Venice2026-10-24
Can I use it?MiniMax (Modified MIT) (modified-mit)MIT with added terms; read the repo LICENSE before commercial hostinglicence file2026-10-24
Does it work?75.8on SWE-bench Verified#1 of 22 measuredleaderboard2026-02-17
Do people use it?992.9kdownloads, 30 days#109 of 619 we track · top 18%+5 likes, downloads +28% this week1,526 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 20 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6 according to a user observation in the discussion.

From MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6? · news.ycombinator.com · 2026-03-14
Most discussed · 12 HN pts

MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6?

Anthropic identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities.

  • MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6 according to a user observation in the discussion.
  • Gemini 2.0 Exp 1206 was reported to be indirectly trained on Claude's outputs with humans in between.
news.ycombinator.com 2026-03-14 12 HN pts · 11 comments 643 words

20 best of 20 tracked

The 4 picks above, plus these 16. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleMiniMax M2.5agent.minimax.io · 2026-02-11 · 55 HN pts · official
  2. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17x-20x cheaperswebench.com · 2026-03-02 · 6 HN pts
  3. ArticleMiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity. - MiniMax News | MiniMaxminimax.io · 2026-02-12 · official
  4. ArticleMiniMax-M2.5: How to Run Guideunsloth.ai · 2026-02-23 · 3 HN pts
  5. ArticleMiniMax M2.5: Faster, stronger, smarter. Built for real-world productivityminimaxi.com · 2026-02-12 · 4 HN pts · official
  6. DiscussionThe RL Architecture Behind Minimax M2.5twitter.com · 2026-02-21 · 3 HN pts
  7. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus at 1/33rd the costnews.reading.sh · 2026-02-12
  8. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 Review: Frontier Code at Bargain Cost | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai · 2026-03-09
  9. ArticleWhat is MiniMax M2.5?apidog.com · 2026-03-03
  10. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 Is Goodziva.sh · 2026-02-19
  11. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai · 2026-02-24
  12. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 codes on a top level without the costi-scoop.eu · 2026-02-14
  13. ArticleMiniMax-M2.5: The $1/hour Frontier Model – Maxime Labonnemlabonne.github.io · 2026-02-13
  14. ArticleMiniMax M2.5: Best 8-Benchmark Review, $1/Hour Pricingbinaryverseai.com · 2026-02-13
  15. ArticleMiniMax M2.5 Analysis: The New Frontier in Coding & Function Callingvertu.com · 2026-02-13
  16. ArticleMiniMax M2.5: Frontier Coding for Less | S5 Labss5labs.io · 2026-02-12

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

7 providers from $0.27

7 providers with a live price, from $0.27 to $0.30 per million input tokens; the median is $0.30. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.

$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Venice: $0.27 in / $0.95 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5StreamLake: $0.27 in / $1.08 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5AtlasCloud: $0.29 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5Novita: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingGMICloud: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5DigitalOcean: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5Minimax: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5cheapest $0.27median $0.30
$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Venice: $0.27 in / $0.95 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5StreamLake: $0.27 in / $1.08 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5AtlasCloud: $0.29 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5Novita: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingGMICloud: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5DigitalOcean: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2.5+1cheapest $0.27 · median $0.30 (white tick)
#Cheapest 5In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Venice $0.27 $0.95 193K unknown Oct 24
2 StreamLake $0.27 $1.08 195K unknown Oct 24
3 AtlasCloud $0.29 $1.20 192K fp8 Oct 24
4 DigitalOcean $0.30 $1.20 64K unknown Oct 24
5 GMICloud $0.30 $1.20 192K fp8 Oct 24

All 8 providers →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Widely served (8 API providers); heavily run locally (63 quantized builds).

  • As a service8AtlasCloud, DigitalOcean, Featherless, GMICloud +4
  • On own hardware63quantized builds
  • Built on3027 fine-tunes · 1 adapters · 2 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: akhaliq/anycoder ♥ 3,321 · hadadxyz/ai ♥ 819 · pliny-the-prompter/obliteratus ♥ 621 · GenAISecurityProject/OWASP-AIBOM-Generator ♥ 30

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits two 80 GB GPUs at INT4; too big for one

About 137 GB at INT4, 274 GB at FP8, 549 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 137 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4137 GBFP8: about 274 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8274 GBBF16: about 549 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16549 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 137 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4137 GBFP8: about 274 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8274 GBBF16: about 549 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16549 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

How it scores

Third-party measurements only; author-reported numbers stay in Reference, marked as such.

#1 of 22 on SWE-bench Verified so far

75.8. Each tick is a model on this site with a measured SWE-bench Verified row; author-reported numbers stay in Reference. Percent resolved. agent: mini-SWE-agent, reasoning_effort=high

zai-org/GLM-5: 72.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5: 70.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2: 70 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct: 69.6 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.6: 68.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5: 64.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking: 63.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2: 61 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 60.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct: 55.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.6: 55.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5: 54.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 53.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 52.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 51.6 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 43.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324: 42 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/openai/gpt-oss-120b: 26 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/010075.8 · #1 of 22
zai-org/GLM-5: 72.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5: 70.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2: 70 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct: 69.6 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.6: 68.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5: 64.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking: 63.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2: 61 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 60.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct: 55.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.6: 55.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/zai-org/GLM-4.5: 54.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 53.4 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 52.2 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: 51.6 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 43.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324: 42 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/openai/gpt-oss-120b: 26 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/010075.8 · #1 of 22

Source · leaderboard · 2026-02-17

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2026-02-12), amber triangles are 9 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

93 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

93 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

63 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)27 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)1 adapter (Hugging Face model tree)63 quantized27 fine-tunes2 merges1 adapter
63 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)27 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)1 adapter (Hugging Face model tree)63 quantized27 fine-tunes2 merges1 adapter

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

5 rows

Benchmarks 5 rows

measured third-party leaderboard row (2)author-reported number from the model card or eval files (3)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
measured SWE-bench Multilingual · Write code with agents68.3 percent resolvedagent: mini-SWE-agentleaderboard2026-02-16
measured SWE-bench Verified · Write code with agents75.8 percent resolvedagent: mini-SWE-agent, reasoning_effort=highleaderboard2026-02-17
author-reported diamond (Idavidrein/gpqa)85.2—Model Card2026-02-13
author-reported hle (cais/hle)19.4—Model Card2026-02-13
author-reported swe_bench_%_resolved (SWE-bench/SWE-bench_Verified)75.8high reasoningSWE-Bench official evaluation2026-10-24

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

21 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesMiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Model typeminimax_m2
Params by dtypeBF16: 1,230,021,632 · F32: 48,774,656 · F8_E4M3: 227,410,968,576
Size bandXXL
MoEyes
Experts256
Experts per token8
Context length196,608 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
LicenseMiniMax (Modified MIT) (modified-mit) (other)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for MiniMax-M2.5: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)549 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)274 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)137 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original release (shipped quantized by the lab) Family: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 93 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 63finetune: 27merge: 2adapter: 1

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
nvidia/MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 116B XXL other nvidia 41 1.1M
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 229B XXL other lmstudio-community 3 383.6k
unsloth/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other unsloth 247 310.3k
lukealonso/MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 116B XXL mit lukealonso 45 309.1k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 229B XXL other lmstudio-community 1 303.2k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 229B XXL other lmstudio-community 0 298.6k
QuantTrio/MiniMax-M2.5-AWQ quantized AWQ 229B XXL other QuantTrio 15 193.8k
mratsim/MiniMax-M2.5-BF16-INT4-AWQ quantized -BF16 39.1B XL other mratsim 43 168.6k
cyankiwi/MiniMax-M2.5-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 36.8B XL other cyankiwi 11 97.8k
ubergarm/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — ubergarm 51 40.4k
amd/MiniMax-M2.5-MXFP4 quantized MXFP4 116B XXL other amd 1 38.5k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other lmstudio-community 5 31.7k
mratsim/MiniMax-M2.5-FP8-INT4-AWQ quantized -FP8 39.1B XL other mratsim 21 26.2k
mradermacher/MiniMax-M2.5-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 1 25.4k
togethercomputer/Aurora-Spec-Minimax-M2.5 finetune — 858M S apache-2.0 togethercomputer 6 18.9k
thoughtworks/MiniMax-M2.5-Eagle3 finetune — 243M S apache-2.0 thoughtworks 7 18.3k
mudler/MiniMax-M2.5-APEX-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mudler 3 16.9k
Ex0bit/MiniMax-M2.5-PRISM-LITE finetune GGUF — — other Ex0bit 3 15.6k
ox-ox/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit ox-ox 19 14.1k
cerebras/MiniMax-M2.5-REAP-139B-A10B quantized — 139B XXL other cerebras 29 9.8k
dealignai/MiniMax-M2.5-UNCENSORED-JANG_2L finetune — 60.2B XL apache-2.0 dealignai 11 9.4k
Intel/MiniMax-M2.5-int4-AutoRound quantized int4 31.7B L — Intel 13 8.8k
DevQuasar/MiniMaxAI.MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 7 8.1k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-8bit quantized -8bit 229B XXL other mlx-community 2 8k
QuantPasture/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — QuantPasture 30 6.5k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-4bit quantized -4bit 229B XXL other mlx-community 3 7.6k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-3bit quantized — 229B XXL other mlx-community 11 7k
exdysa/MiniMax-M2.5-REAP-172B-A10B-GGUF-Q4_K_M quantized GGUF — — other exdysa 3 6.9k
zenlm/zen5-mini-gguf quantized gguf — — other zenlm 0 5k
Ex0bit/MiniMax-M2.5-PRISM-PRO finetune GGUF — — other Ex0bit 18 3.9k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-6bit quantized — 229B XXL other mlx-community 4 4.4k
cerebras/MiniMax-M2.5-REAP-172B-A10B quantized — 173B XXL other cerebras 27 2.3k
mradermacher/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 0 3.7k
selimaktas/MiniMax-M2.75-460B-A20B merge — 453B XXL other selimaktas 27 2k
unsloth/MiniMax-M2.5 quantized — 229B XXL other unsloth 5 3.1k
wimmmm/MiniMax-M2.5-REAP-172B-A10B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other wimmmm 2 3.2k
dealignai/MiniMax-M2.5-JANG_3L-CRACK finetune — 116B XXL apache-2.0 dealignai 3 2.5k
marksverdhei/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other marksverdhei 3 2.4k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-5bit quantized — 229B XXL other mlx-community 1 2.4k
EliasOenal/MiniMax-M2.5-Hybrid-AWQ-W4A16G128-Attn-fp8_e4m3-KV-fp8_e4m3 quantized AWQ 33.8B L other EliasOenal 16 1.2k

Repository changelog

17 commits

Repository changelog 17 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-03-10 Add evaluation results for GPQA, HLE (#3) f710177
2026-03-10 Add evaluation results on SWE-Bench Verified (#42) 1825d90
2026-03-06 Create LICENSE-MODEL ab0ddff
2026-02-16 Update README.md 1248334
2026-02-14 Update README.md 37649bd
2026-02-13 Update README.md 3040bea
2026-02-13 Update README.md 2663734
2026-02-13 Update README.md 3e16da2
2026-02-13 Upload bench_12.png c6c3633
2026-02-13 update: tool calling guide 5fb9455
2026-02-12 update configs 134ae7c
2026-02-12 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 9ba43d5
2026-02-12 Add files using upload-large-folder tool afa2694
2026-02-12 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 8c436e5
2026-02-12 update docs 6ff2856
2026-02-12 Upload 13 files aa487ef
2026-02-12 initial commit e838ad0

All providers

8 providers · 8 endpoints

Where to run 8 providers · 8 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for MiniMax-M2.5, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.27/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Venice
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 193K unknown $0.27 $0.95 — — yes live 2026-10-24
StreamLake
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 195K unknown $0.27 $1.08 — — yes live 2026-10-24
AtlasCloud
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 192K fp8 $0.29 $1.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Novita
hf, openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 200K fp8 $0.30 $1.20 42.5 783 ms yes live 2026-10-25
GMICloud
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 192K fp8 $0.30 $1.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
DigitalOcean
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 64K unknown $0.30 $1.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Minimax
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2.5 200K fp8 $0.30 $1.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Featherless
hf
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

20 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official5

minimax.io2026-02-12officialauthorityHN front pageHN 207 pts · 55 comments2,175 words
MiniMax releases M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning, two versions identical in capability but differing in speed. M2.5 operates at 50 tokens per second, whereas M2.5-Lightning achieves a steady throughput of 100 tokens per second. The faster M2.5-Lightning version costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.4 per million output tokens.written, reviewed, cited
agent.minimax.io2026-02-11officialauthorityHN 55 pts · 4 comments176 words
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a new multimodal coding model built for real work tasks. From now through October 25, 2026, 23:59 (UTC+8), all subscribers can use the model with no usage caps. From today through October 31, 2026, 23:59 (UTC+8), new subscribers and M Plan upgraders get 50% off the first month.written, reviewed, cited
minimax.io2026-02-14officialauthorityHN 2 pts · 0 comments344 words
MiniMax M2.5 is available in 100 TPS and 50 TPS versions with output pricing at just 1/10 to 1/20 of comparable models. Model weights are fully open-sourced on HuggingFace and GitHub for local deployment, supporting vLLM or SGLang for optimal performance. Two API versions exist: M2.5 and M2.5-highspeed, which offer identical results but faster speed.written, reviewed, cited
minimax.io2026-02-12officialauthority2,175 words
minimaxi.com2026-02-12officialHN 4 pts · 0 comments522 words

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MiniMax-M2.5 is a deprecated open weights model released on February 12, 2026, featuring 230 billion total parameters with only 10 billion active during inference. The model operates under an MIT license, supports a 205k token context window, and generates text at 70 tokens per second. It scores 23 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while costing $0.30 per 1M input tokens.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model is deprecated and benchmarking continues only for the default 10k input token workload.
  • For a blended rate using a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio, the cost is $0.20 per 1M tokens.
swebench.com2026-03-02HN 6 pts · 9 comments202 words
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news.ycombinator.com2026-03-14HN 12 pts · 11 comments643 words
Anthropic identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities. These labs generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions. Unambiguous distillation is identified when a model repeats guardrail prompt injections from a teacher model, word-by-word, such as GLM-4.7 repeating injections from Gemini 3.0 Pro.written, reviewed, cited
  • MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6 according to a user observation in the discussion.
  • Gemini 2.0 Exp 1206 was reported to be indirectly trained on Claude's outputs with humans in between.
twitter.com2026-02-21HN 3 pts · 0 comments
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MiniMax-M2.5 - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6?news.ycombinator.com2026-03-142026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 Review: Frontier Code at Bargain Cost | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai2026-03-092026-10-07exa
What is MiniMax M2.5?apidog.com2026-03-032026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17x-20x cheaperswebench.com2026-03-022026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai2026-02-242026-10-07exa
MiniMax-M2.5: How to Run Guideunsloth.ai2026-02-232026-10-07hn
The RL Architecture Behind Minimax M2.5twitter.com2026-02-212026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 Is Goodziva.sh2026-02-192026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 SOTA in Coding and Agent, Designed for Agent Universeminimax.io official2026-02-142026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 codes on a top level without the costi-scoop.eu2026-02-142026-10-07exa
MiniMax-M2.5: The $1/hour Frontier Model – Maxime Labonnemlabonne.github.io2026-02-132026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5: Best 8-Benchmark Review, $1/Hour Pricingbinaryverseai.com2026-02-132026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5 Analysis: The New Frontier in Coding & Function Callingvertu.com2026-02-132026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus at 1/33rd the costnews.reading.sh2026-02-122026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verifiedminimax.io official2026-02-122026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5: Faster, stronger, smarter. Built for real-world productivityminimaxi.com official2026-02-122026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity. - MiniMax News | MiniMaxminimax.io official2026-02-122026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5: Frontier Coding for Less | S5 Labss5labs.io2026-02-122026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2.5agent.minimax.io official2026-02-112026-10-07hn

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