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MiniMaxAI MiniMax (Modified MIT) (modified-mit) out 12 months ago

229B parameters (8 of 256 experts per token), text in, text out, 192K tokens of context. 3 providers serve it from $0.26 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #101 in LLMs · score 99.1 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 117k · #302 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?137GB at INT4Estimatefits 2×80 GBmethod
What does it cost?$0.26/1M incheapest of 2Minimaxfp82026-10-24
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?61on SWE-bench Verified#9 of 22 measuredleaderboard2025-11-24
Do people use it?117kdownloads, 30 days#302 of 619 we track · top 49%+4 likes, downloads −35% this week1,513 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 16 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 84 HN pts

MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source

MiniMax released M2.7, an agentic model that improved its own code over 100 rounds without human direction, achieving a 30% performance boost.

  • M2.7 scores 76.5 on SWE Multilingual and 52.7 on Multi SWE Bench, testing closer to real world engineering scenarios.
  • The model maintains 97% skill compliance across 40 complex skills on MM Claw, each skill exceeding 2,000 tokens.
firethering.com 2026-04-12 84 HN pts · 36 comments 1.1k words
Latest · 5 months ago

MiniMax M2 Technical Report Notes | Sebastian Raschka, PhD

MiniMax M2 is a 62-layer decoder-only transformer with 229.9 billion total parameters and a 196,608 token context window.

  • The full-attention model scored 90 on a 128K RULER task compared with 72 for the sliding-window version.
  • The fine-grained MoE version splits expert capacity into 128 smaller experts and selects eight per token.
sebastianraschka.com 2026-05-27

16 best of 16 tracked

The 5 picks above, plus these 11. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. PaperThe MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligencearxiv.org · undated
  2. ArticleMiniMax-M3 vs MiniMax-M2: Model Comparisonartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  3. ArticleComparing GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.5, MiMo V2 Pro and MiniMax M2.7codejam.info · 2026-04-18 · 6 HN pts
  4. ArticleMiniMax-M2: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · 2025-10-25 · 3 HN pts
  5. CodeMiniMax-M2github.com · 2025-10-27 · 2 HN pts
  6. ArticleMiniMax M2 | nextomoronextomoro.com · 2026-05-15
  7. ArticleGitHubminimax-m2.com · undated
  8. ArticleMiniMax M2 Review 2025 Speed & Featuresskywork.ai · undated
  9. ArticleMiniMax M2 Review: Benchmarks, Pricing, Setup, Free APIbinaryverseai.com · 2026-02-03
  10. ArticleMiniMax-M2 - In-depth Analysiscanopywave.com · 2026-01-30
  11. ArticleMiniMax-M2: Technical Deep Dive into Interleaved Thinking for Agentic Coding Workflows - MarkTechPostmarktechpost.com · 2025-12-01

Where to run it

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

2 providers from $0.26

2 providers with a live price, from $0.26 to $0.30 per million input tokens; the median is $0.28. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.

$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Minimax: $0.26 in / $1.02 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2Google: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2cheapest $0.26median $0.28
$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Minimax: $0.26 in / $1.02 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2Google: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2cheapest $0.26 · median $0.28 (white tick)
#Cheapest 3In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Minimax $0.26 $1.02 200K fp8 Oct 24
2 Google $0.30 $1.20 192K unknown Oct 24
3 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 3 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.

Served by 3 API providers; 39 quantized builds for local use.

  • As a service3Featherless, Google, Minimax
  • On own hardware39quantized builds
  • Built on1915 fine-tunes · 2 adapters · 2 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: akhaliq/anycoder ♥ 3,321 · hadadxyz/ai ♥ 819 · umint/ai ♥ 258 · hfmlsoc/Lit_Review_with_LMs ♥ 3

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.

#9 of 22 on SWE-bench Verified so far

61. 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

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5: 75.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/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/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/010061 · #9 of 22
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5: 75.8 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://www.swebench.com/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/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/010061 · #9 of 22

Source · leaderboard · 2025-11-24

The story so far

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

8 dated articles and 30 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-10-22), amber triangles are 8 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

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

58 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.

39 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)15 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)2 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)39 quantized15 fine-tunes2 merges2 adapters
39 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)15 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)2 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)39 quantized15 fine-tunes2 merges2 adapters

All variants →

Reference

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

Benchmarks

1 row

Benchmarks 1 row

measured third-party leaderboard row (1)author-reported number from the model card or eval filesNo 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 Verified · Write code with agents61 percent resolvedagent: mini-SWE-agentleaderboard2025-11-24

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

22 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)
PapersarXiv:2504.07164, arXiv:2509.06501, arXiv:2509.13160
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: 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 58 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 39finetune: 15adapter: 2merge: 2

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
QuantTrio/MiniMax-M2-AWQ quantized AWQ 229B XXL apache-2.0 QuantTrio 10 1.3M
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 229B XXL mit lmstudio-community 1 191.9k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 229B XXL mit lmstudio-community 0 176k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 229B XXL mit lmstudio-community 0 172.6k
unsloth/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit unsloth 90 157.1k
bartowski/MiniMaxAI_MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — bartowski 11 22.4k
lemuralabs/MiniMax-M2-Pruned-25 finetune — 173B XXL mit lemuralabs 36 20.8k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-4bit quantized -4bit 229B XXL mit mlx-community 10 18.3k
lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit lmstudio-community 1 17.3k
redponike/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit redponike 2 15.6k
cturan/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit cturan 15 12.9k
DevQuasar/MiniMaxAI.MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 15 11k
cerebras/MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B quantized — 162B XXL other cerebras 80 6.4k
OsaurusAI/MiniMax-M2.7-Small-JANGTQ finetune — 12.5B L other OsaurusAI 26 7.6k
ModelCloud/MiniMax-M2-GPTQMODEL-W4A16 quantized GPTQ 229B XXL other ModelCloud 3 8.5k
bullerwins/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit bullerwins 6 7.7k
tiny-random/minimax-m2 finetune — 3.31M S — tiny-random 0 6.9k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-8bit quantized -8bit 229B XXL mit mlx-community 8 4.7k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-3bit quantized — 229B XXL mit mlx-community 3 4.4k
cerebras/MiniMax-M2-REAP-139B-A10B quantized — 139B XXL other cerebras 18 3.2k
lukealonso/MiniMax-M2-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 115B XXL — lukealonso 14 3.2k
cerebras/MiniMax-M2-REAP-172B-A10B quantized — 173B XXL other cerebras 23 2.5k
Intel/MiniMax-M2-gguf-q2ks-mixed-AutoRound quantized gguf — — — Intel 8 2.8k
moxin-org/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit moxin-org 6 2.8k
cyankiwi/MiniMax-M2-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 36.8B XL other cyankiwi 4 2.5k
lemuralabs/MiniMax-M2-Pruned-55 finetune — 106B XXL mit lemuralabs 5 2.3k
mradermacher/MiniMax-M2-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 8 2k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-5bit quantized — 229B XXL mit mlx-community 2 2.2k
mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-6bit quantized — 229B XXL mit mlx-community 2 2.2k
ilintar/MiniMax-M2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit ilintar 3 1.8k
ModelCloud/MiniMax-M2-BF16 finetune -BF16 229B XXL mit ModelCloud 3 1.6k
yujiepan/minimax-m2-tiny-random finetune — 3.31M S — yujiepan 0 1.4k
anikifoss/MiniMax-M2-HQ4_K quantized GGUF — — mit anikifoss 2 1.1k
turboderp/MiniMax-M2-exl3 quantized exl3 — — mit turboderp 8 213
ArtusDev/MiniMaxAI_MiniMax-M2-EXL3 quantized EXL3 — — mit ArtusDev 5 355
a2s-ai/MiniMax-M2-AWQ quantized AWQ 229B XXL apache-2.0 a2s-ai 0 562
KikoCis/minimax-m2-expert-prune-heal quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 KikoCis 1 439
gauravmm/MiniMax-M2.5-REAP-139B-A10B-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 78.8B XL other gauravmm 1 345
avtc/MiniMax-M2-GPTQMODEL-W4A16 quantized GPTQ 229B XXL other avtc 0 388
morriszjm/MiniMax-M2.5-192e quantized — 173B XXL other morriszjm 0 277

Repository changelog

30 commits

Repository changelog 30 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-12-23 Fix README.md typo (#50) 757303d
2025-12-08 improve model identity in chat template f62f643
2025-11-13 Update modeling_minimax_m2.py 56992d0
2025-11-13 Update LICENSE (#39) c1be0dc
2025-11-07 Fix chat_template (#32) 9354a5c
2025-11-06 update README de27025
2025-11-06 Update docs/transformers_deploy_guide.md eb390b8
2025-11-06 Prepare support transformers (#24) 78ba357
2025-10-29 update guides c2b7e11
2025-10-29 update wechat qrcode 7584a2e
2025-10-29 update guide 3af90e1
2025-10-29 add wechat on README d1b3a66
2025-10-29 upload wechat QRCode 1b75594
2025-10-29 Improve docs (#23) 197d677
2025-10-29 update mlx guide db1917a
2025-10-29 update mlx-deploy-guide cad818a
2025-10-29 Add MLX example (#22) c706fa1
2025-10-28 add community showcases 457945b
2025-10-27 fix config typo 44cefa6
2025-10-27 update README 3f46446
2025-10-27 Adding `transformers` as the library name (#10) 2c35de5
2025-10-27 Update README.md 14ec561
2025-10-27 update bench figure 59f758d
2025-10-27 update README 1fe6a45
2025-10-27 update guides a970723
2025-10-27 update sglang guide 4167c37
2025-10-27 Update generation_config.json e977417
2025-10-27 update top_k 48a6a46
2025-10-27 update README 00b05bd
2025-10-27 Update README.md (#6) c858585

All providers

3 providers · 3 endpoints

Where to run 3 providers · 3 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for MiniMax-M2, 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: $0.26/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Minimax
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2 200K fp8 $0.26 $1.02 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Google
openrouter
minimax/minimax-m2 192K unknown $0.30 $1.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Featherless
hf
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2 — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

16 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.

Official1

minimaxi.com2025-10-28officialHN 4 pts · 0 comments142 words

Analysis9

firethering.com2026-04-12HN 84 pts · 36 comments1,101 words
MiniMax released M2.7, an agentic model that improved its own code over 100 rounds without human direction, achieving a 30% performance boost. The model won 9 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 1 bronze across 22 machine learning competitions runnable on a single A30 GPU. It scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and reduces live production incident recovery time to under three minutes on multiple occasions. Commercial use requires prior written authorization from MiniMax, while non-commercial use remains free.written, reviewed, cited
  • M2.7 scores 76.5 on SWE Multilingual and 52.7 on Multi SWE Bench, testing closer to real world engineering scenarios.
  • The model maintains 97% skill compliance across 40 complex skills on MM Claw, each skill exceeding 2,000 tokens.
sebastianraschka.com2026-05-27authority
MiniMax M2 is a 62-layer decoder-only transformer with 229.9 billion total parameters and a 196,608 token context window. The architecture uses 256 fine-grained experts per MoE layer, activating 9.8 billion parameters per token via sigmoid gating. MiniMax estimates its internal Model Iteration System handles 30 to 50 percent of its daily RL iteration workload.written, reviewed, cited
  • The full-attention model scored 90 on a 128K RULER task compared with 72 for the sliding-window version.
  • The fine-grained MoE version splits expert capacity into 128 smaller experts and selects eight per token.
  • The reinforcement-learning objective includes a task-completion-time reward that decreases as completion time rises.
arxiv.orgauthority13,874 words
MiniMax introduces the M2 series, a Mixture-of-Experts language model family designed for agentic workflows. The flagship M2 is a 62-layer decoder-only Transformer pre-trained on 29.2T tokens containing 229.9B total parameters with only 9.8B activated per token. The latest M2.7 checkpoint demonstrates early self-evolution by autonomously debugging training runs and modifying its own scaffold. On agentic coding, M2.7 reaches 56.2 on SWE-bench Pro, 76.5 on SWE-bench Multilingual, and 52.7 on Multi-SWE-bench.written, reviewed, cited
  • M2 uses sigmoid gating for expert routing, allowing multiple experts to activate simultaneously without a zero-sum constraint.
  • The model departs from hybrid attention mechanisms in favor of full multi-head attention across all layers.
  • Hybrid Sliding Window Attention variants showed degraded performance on retrieval and multi-hop reasoning tasks during pre-training.
artificialanalysis.aiauthority785 words
MiniMax-M3 scores 29 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index compared to MiniMax-M2's estimated 19. Released in June 2026 versus October 2025, the newer model costs $0.222 per 1M tokens against $0.39 for the older version. MiniMax-M3 features a 1000k token context window and a 1.26s time to first token, improving upon the 205k window and 1.41s latency of MiniMax-M2.written, reviewed, cited
  • MiniMax-M3 supports text, image, and video input modalities while MiniMax-M2 supports only text.
  • MiniMax-M3 costs $0.06 per 1M tokens for cache hits, a feature not listed for MiniMax-M2.
  • MiniMax-M3 has 428B total parameters and 23B active parameters compared to MiniMax-M2's 230B and 10B.
codejam.info2026-04-18HN 6 pts · 2 comments1,457 words
GPT-5.4 achieved an average cleanliness score of 9 while GLM-5.1 scored 8 in the technical approach evaluation. Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax M2.7 were consistently ranked at the bottom with average scores of 5.6 and 5.2 respectively.generated, cited
artificialanalysis.ai2025-10-25authorityHN 3 pts · 1 comments889 words
huggingface.co2025-12-26authorityHN 2 pts · 0 comments970 words
github.com2025-10-27authorityHN 2 pts · 0 comments1,602 words
news.reading.sh2026-02-12HN 3 pts · 0 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (16) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligencearxiv.org—2026-10-07exa
MiniMax-M3 vs MiniMax-M2: Model Comparisonartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
GitHubminimax-m2.com—2026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2 Review 2025 Speed &amp; Featuresskywork.ai—2026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2 Technical Report Notes | Sebastian Raschka, PhDsebastianraschka.com2026-05-272026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2 | nextomoronextomoro.com2026-05-152026-10-07exa
Comparing GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.5, MiMo V2 Pro and MiniMax M2.7codejam.info2026-04-182026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Sourcefirethering.com2026-04-122026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus at 1/33rd the costnews.reading.sh2026-02-122026-10-07hn
MiniMax M2 Review: Benchmarks, Pricing, Setup, Free APIbinaryverseai.com2026-02-032026-10-07exa
MiniMax-M2 - In-depth Analysiscanopywave.com2026-01-302026-10-07exa
Aligning to What? Rethinking Agent Generalization in MiniMax M2huggingface.co2025-12-262026-10-07hn
MiniMax-M2: Technical Deep Dive into Interleaved Thinking for Agentic Coding Workflows - MarkTechPostmarktechpost.com2025-12-012026-10-07exa
MiniMax M2: open model for agents and codeminimaxi.com official2025-10-282026-10-07hn
MiniMax-M2github.com2025-10-272026-10-07hn
MiniMax-M2: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai2025-10-252026-10-07hn

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