MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
Analysis Summary
MiniMax M2.5 is a text-only model with a strong agentic score and solid tool-use reliability, backed by decent instruction-following and long-context results. Its 204K context window and aggressive pricing make it one of the cheaper options with genuine agentic capability.
That combination fits high-volume automation, customer support bots, and multi-step task orchestration where cost per call matters more than frontier reasoning depth. It lacks vision support and detailed coding benchmarks, so it's a weaker fit for multimodal or heavy software-engineering work.
For businesses running large volumes of agentic or tool-calling workloads on a budget, M2.5 is a practical, low-cost choice; those needing image understanding or top coding accuracy should look elsewhere.
Assessed July 10, 2026
Editorial notes
MiniMax M2.5 offers strong agentic performance and reliable tool use at a low price point, though it lacks vision and its coding benchmarks are thinner than top peers.
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DFO Verdict
MiniMax M2.5 offers strong agentic performance and reliable tool use at a low price point, though it lacks vision and its coding benchmarks are thinner than top peers.
How MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 compares
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 ranks #64 of 393 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #32 of 300 for agentic tasks. Its 205K-token context window is larger than 65% of the models we list. At $0.15 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 58% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input Ā· light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ā 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in content corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.90 | $0.000900 |
What would MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 cost your business?
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.
We route routine calls to cheap models and save MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.
Talk to our teamAbout MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity. Trained in a diverse range of complex real-world digital working environments, M2.5 builds upon the coding expertise of M2.1..
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Frequently asked questions about MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
How much does MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 cost?
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5?
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 has a context window of 204,800 tokens (205K).
What can MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 do?
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 supports tool use and function calling.
Who created MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5?
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 is developed by MiniMax and was released on February 12, 2026.
