MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax releases M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning, two versions identical in capability but differing in speed.
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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
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.
MiniMax releases M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning, two versions identical in capability but differing in speed.
Anthropic identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.
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.
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).
Top Spaces running it: akhaliq/anycoder ♥ 3,321 · hadadxyz/ai ♥ 819 · pliny-the-prompter/obliteratus ♥ 621 · GenAISecurityProject/OWASP-AIBOM-Generator ♥ 30
Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method
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.
Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate
Third-party measurements only; author-reported numbers stay in Reference, marked as such.
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
Source · leaderboard · 2026-02-17
Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.
Teal is the weights (2026-02-12), amber triangles are 9 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.
93 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.
From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.
Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.
| Benchmark | Value | Setting / notes | Reported by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| measured SWE-bench Multilingual · Write code with agents | 68.3 percent resolved | agent: mini-SWE-agent | leaderboard | 2026-02-16 |
| measured SWE-bench Verified · Write code with agents | 75.8 percent resolved | agent: mini-SWE-agent, reasoning_effort=high | leaderboard | 2026-02-17 |
| author-reported diamond (Idavidrein/gpqa) | 85.2 | — | Model Card | 2026-02-13 |
| author-reported hle (cais/hle) | 19.4 | — | Model Card | 2026-02-13 |
| author-reported swe_bench_%_resolved (SWE-bench/SWE-bench_Verified) | 75.8 | high reasoning | SWE-Bench official evaluation | 2026-10-24 |
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.
| Pipeline tag | text-generation |
|---|---|
| Library | transformers |
| Architectures | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM |
| Model type | minimax_m2 |
| Params by dtype | BF16: 1,230,021,632 · F32: 48,774,656 · F8_E4M3: 227,410,968,576 |
| Size band | XXL |
| MoE | yes |
| Experts | 256 |
| Experts per token | 8 |
| Context length | 196,608 (config.json max_position_embeddings) |
| License | MiniMax (Modified MIT) (modified-mit) (other) |
| Hub snapshot | 2026-10-25 |
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.
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.
quantized: 63finetune: 27merge: 2adapter: 1
| 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 |
| Date | Commit | SHA |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:33 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25
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