Deprecated on Aug 25, 2026. 10 providers still list it at the prices below.

MiniMax M2.5Deprecated

MiniMaxReleased Jan 15, 2025KnowledgeSep 2024
Context
1M
Max output
197K
Serving providers
10
Cheapest input
$0.27 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: ARC Prize, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face leaderboards
Speed & latency
Output speed
70 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
1.46s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
ARC-AGI-25%default$0.17
CritPt1%default—
EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026103.3default—
GPQA Diamond85%default—
Humanity's Last Exam21%default—
IFBench72%default—
Long-Context Reasoning73%default—
Omniscience-38.9default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.3default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.1default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202643%——
SWE-bench Pro55%default—
SWE-bench Verified76%default—
TerminalBench Hard35%default—
τ²-bench95%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.27 to $0.30 per 1M tokens across 10 providers, so the dearest route costs 11% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
OpenRouterRouted quote$0.27$1.081
Standardminimax/minimax-m2.5
ComponentUnitStandard
Text cached in/1M tok$0.027
Text input/1M tok$0.27
Text output/1M tok$1.08
Baseten$0.30$1.201
Amazon Bedrock$0.30$1.201
Friendliai$0.30$1.201
Minimax$0.30$1.201
Nebius$0.30$1.201
Novita$0.30$1.201
Tensormesh$0.30$1.201
Vercel is dearest at $0.60 / $2.40

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$0.50$1.00$1.50Feb 12Apr 12Jun 22Sep 13$1.20$0.30

Cost calculator

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$140
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Model IDs

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minimax/minimax-m2.5minimax/MiniMax-M2.5bedrock/us-east-1/minimax.minimax-m2.5baseten/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5tensormesh/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5wandb/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5novita/minimax/minimax-m2.5nebius/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5friendliai/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5

Frequently asked questions

MiniMax M2.5 pricing, context and availability

Is MiniMax M2.5 still available?

MiniMax M2.5 was deprecated on 2026-08-25, but 10 serving providers still list it.

How much does MiniMax M2.5 cost?

MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.27 per 1M input tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote, while Minimax lists it at $0.30 per 1M input, and $1.08 per 1M output tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote, while Minimax lists it at $1.20 per 1M output. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day. Across 10 serving providers, input prices range from $0.27 to $0.30 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of MiniMax M2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 197K output tokens.

Which providers serve MiniMax M2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 is available from 10 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenRouter is currently the cheapest, as a routed quote.

What can MiniMax M2.5 do?

MiniMax M2.5 supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.

Other MiniMax models

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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