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MiniMax-M2
MiniMax-M2 is an open-weight model from MiniMax, released Oct 23, 2025. It ranks #214 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1340. It costs $0.26 per million input tokens and $1.02 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.
- Developer
- MiniMax
- Released
- Oct 23, 2025
- Context window
- 200K
- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
- $0.26 / $1.02
- Weights
- Open · Apache 2.0
- Inputs
- Text
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool use
- Yes
- Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
- 117K
- Hugging Face likes
- 1.5K
The rating LMArena published at each update since Nov 5, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1340 | 214 / 351 | 6.9K |
| CodingLMArena | 1371 | 206 / 346 | 1.5K |
| MathLMArena | 1351 | 218 / 339 | 320 |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1287 | 236 / 349 | 895 |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1329 | 207 / 351 | 2K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1357 | 204 / 351 | 3.7K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1361 | 193 / 349 | 1.1K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1331 | 214 / 330 | 1.7K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1338 | 213 / 305 | 301 |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1349 | 210 / 325 | 433 |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1367 | 195 / 325 | 315 |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1336 | 209 / 344 | 1.3K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1366 | 207 / 328 | 452 |
| SpanishLanguages | 1326 | 206 / 249 | 206 |
| GermanLanguages | 1354 | 167 / 261 | 132 |
| FrenchLanguages | 1336 | 201 / 252 | 135 |
| WebDevLMArena | 1297 | 130 / 124 | 6.7K |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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MiniMax
Builds long-context text, voice and video models, with open-weight releases. Founded 2021, based in Shanghai. minimax.io
Questions
Who makes MiniMax-M2?
MiniMax-M2 is made by MiniMax, founded 2021 and based in Shanghai.
How much does MiniMax-M2 cost?
$0.26 per million input tokens and $1.02 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.
What is MiniMax-M2’s context window?
200K tokens (204,800).
How does MiniMax-M2 rank?
#214 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1340 (95% interval 1333–1348) from 6,855 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is MiniMax-M2 open source?
MiniMax-M2 has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2).