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title: "Check MiniMax M2.7 — is it still the one to buy · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/check/minimax__minimax-m2.7/
description: "MiniMax M2.7: whether anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, as of Aug 28, 2026. Unrated stays unrated."
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# Check MiniMax M2.7 — is it still the one to buy · Undominated.ai

> MiniMax M2.7: whether anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, as of Aug 28, 2026. Unrated stays unrated.

# Check a model

Name what you are paying for. The plot is the same Pareto field as the frontier page. The answer is a computation on this catalogue, not an opinion. Bookmark the URL.

9 undominated of 134 · Aug 28, 2026

As of Aug 28, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. MiniMax M3 scores 29.5 higher and costs 0% less, with a covering envelope. 9 of 134 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

 Current model

MiniMax M2.7

 Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic
 Monthly spend (USD) Used only to say how many months a named switching cost would take to earn back. Leave blank to skip. Switching cost (USD) 134 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

MiniMax M3 is both better and cheaper than MiniMax M2.7.

 [MiniMax M2.7](/models/minimax__minimax-m2.7/)

LMArena Elo

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1405.3

Effective $/M · Balanced

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$0.525/M

 [MiniMax M3](/models/minimax__minimax-m3/)

LMArena Elo

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1434.8

Effective $/M · Balanced

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$0.525/M

## Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

| Model | LMArena | Effective $/M | You save |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MiniMax M3 | 1434.8 +29.5 | $0.525/M | 0% |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | 1431.6 +26.3 | $0.101/M | 81% |
| MiMo-V2.5 | 1427.3 +22.0 | $0.175/M | 67% |

## Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

| Model | LMArena | Effective $/M | You give up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemma 4 31B | 1441.7 | $0.153/M | max output |
| Hy3 | 1441.2 | $0.144/M | max output |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | 1434.6 | $0.138/M | max output |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 1428.5 | $0.450/M | max output |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | 1424.6 | $0.290/M | context |

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