MODEL PROOF
MiniMax M2
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 129.7 points · 55% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is a further stored option with these losses: 177K → 131K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,339.9 ± 7.71 · 6,817 votes
- Context window
- 204.8K
- Maximum output
- 176.95K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.300 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.20 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Novita: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Cheaper right now: $0.446/M at Minimax — promotion 15% It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.300/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.20/M |
| Cached input | $0.030/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.300/M from Novita.
3 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimaxminimax/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.255 | $1.02 | fp8 | 100.00% |
| Novitanovita/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 99.87% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | undeclared | 97.66% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1339.9default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- SVG #59 1099
- Data visualisation #76 1147
- UI components #77 1143
- Game development #80 1131
- 3D #81 1105
- Websites #83 1149
- Code categories #84 1139
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 204K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 176K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
MiniMax-M2 is a compact, high-efficiency large language model optimized for end-to-end coding and agentic workflows. With 10 billion activated parameters (230 billion total), it delivers near-frontier intelligence across general reasoning,...
Questions this page answers
What does MiniMax M2 cost?
$0.300/M in, $1.20/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does MiniMax M2 have an independent quality score?
MiniMax M2 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats MiniMax M2?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for MiniMax M2?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest MiniMax M2 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.300/M from Novita.
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