MiniMax M2: Specifications & Sources

Specifications and access

Specification	Value and source
Weights	Open weightsSource
Access	API, LocalSource
Parameters	230BSource
Active parameters	10BSource
Context window	204,800 tokensSource
Release	2025-10-22Source
Parameters	230 BSource
Active parameters	10 BSource

Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

AIME25 (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 78
Score: 78
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: reasoning
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

BrowseComp (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 44
Score: 44
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

GPQA-D (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 78
Score: 78
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: reasoning
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

LiveCodeBench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 83
Score: 83
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: coding
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

Multi-SWE (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 36.2
Score: 36.2
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: coding
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

SWE Verified (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 69.4
Score: 69.4
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: coding
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. vendor-reported

Source official model card/release page

SWE-bench Multilingual (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 56.5
Score: 56.5
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: coding
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

Terminal-Bench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 46.3
Score: 46.3
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: coding
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

ArtifactsBench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 66.8
Score: 66.8
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

BrowseComp-zh (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 48.5
Score: 48.5
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

GAIA (text only) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 75.7
Score: 75.7
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

xbench-DeepSearch (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 72
Score: 72
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: official model card/release page
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. MiniMax-M2; official first benchmark table; published score

Source official model card/release page

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Our tests

Each test shows the latest attempt, with no subsequent fixes to the generated code. Earlier runs remain available in the test details. These results do not contribute to an overall score.

Pelican on a bicycle

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

MiniMax M2

Reasoning (requested): high

Current attempt

Run date: 1 Oct 2026
API provider: openrouter
Requested API model: minimax/minimax-m2
API model reported in response: minimax/minimax-m2
Reasoning setting: high
Pinned endpoint: Minimax | minimax/minimax-m2
Temperature: Provider default
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Test protocol: community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks: Passed, not a quality rating
Response time: 26.9 s

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

Prompt and test conditions

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens

Task origin (Simon Willison)

Popularity

40.2 / 100

Published prices

Hosting-market price: the median of 3 OpenRouter endpoints from 3 providers (representative: Google), observed on October 7, 2026. Cache prices differ by provider and are not shown.

API input: $0.3 per 1M tokensSource
API output: $1.2 per 1M tokensSource

Predecessor and successor

Sources and data date

Type	Evidence and data date
Speed	MiniMax. Output speed after the first streaming chunk, not total response time. Classified as deprecated by Artificial Analysis. Artificial Analysis maintains only the default 10K-input workload there. Retrieved September 8, 2026. Source: Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis (retrieved September 8, 2026)Speed measurement methodology
Price	Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. Source: Pricing · API pricing
Research status	Research date September 8, 2026. 2 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not found in the inspected sources	knowledge-cutoff Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
Additional source	Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026) · MiniMax M2 model card · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional source	MiniMax M2.1 release context · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional source	OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0