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MiniMax-M2.5

by MiniMax

Deprecated budget open weights cheap tier
Deprecated. Still purchasable, but the provider has announced end-of-life. Don't start new work on it. Migration target: MiniMax-M2.7. Full deprecation status & replacements →
Availability: MiniMax still sells MiniMax-M2.5 but no longer prices it on its Pay-as-You-Go page. Until October 2026 that page listed it under "Legacy Models" at $0.3 input / $1.2 output / $0.03 cache read per 1M tokens, the price shown. MiniMax's API still accepts the model, and its own endpoint on OpenRouter still charges that price. MiniMax has published no shutdown date. From 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-19 this row was marked Retired, which wrongly said MiniMax had stopped selling it. Read 2026-10-26.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.300

per 1M tokens

Output

$1.20

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.525

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.030

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official MiniMax pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-30

Price receipt

No confirmed receipt. We hold dated captures of MiniMax's pricing page, but none of them tied MiniMax-M2.5 to the price above on that page, so we do not claim this number is sourced. This model is deprecated — while it remains purchasable, confirm the current rate on the provider's page before relying on it.

Overview

MiniMax-M2.5 model. $0.30/$1.20 per 1M; cached $0.03. Superseded by MiniMax-M2.7.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/4
Text ✓ Image Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 20.1th2 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 38.7

We hold no per-benchmark accuracy scores for this model yet, so it has no accuracy average. That is a gap in our coverage, not a sign the model is untested — independent evaluators often publish a composite index for a new model long before releasing its per-benchmark numbers. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -38.9 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1390.6 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #157 of 194 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 2 independent measurements
  • Ranks #76 of 194 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

Source: Artificial Analysis, LMSYS Chatbot Arena (UC Berkeley) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
MiniMax
Context window
205K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Deprecated
Last updated
Tags
open-weightsbudgetcaching

Availability verified: — per MiniMax's own deprecation notice