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MiniMax M2.5OPEN
MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by OpenSourceAI.tech.
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for MiniMax M2.5, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, MiniMax M2.5 delivers 11 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
MiniMax M2.5 is an open-weight AI model by MiniMax. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is MiniMax M2.5?
MiniMax M2.5 is an AI language model from MiniMax. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 33.7 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is MiniMax M2.5 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host MiniMax M2.5 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.9 per million output tokens.
What is MiniMax M2.5 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 84.8%, Humanity's Last Exam 19.1%, Long Context Reasoning 66%, SciCode 42.6%, IFBench 71.6%, τ²-Bench 95.3%, Terminal-Bench Hard 34.8%.
Can I self-host MiniMax M2.5?
Yes. MiniMax M2.5 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
Depending on your workload, an open-weight model that you can self-host may cut costs dramatically or remove per-token pricing entirely. Our comparison pages put this model side by side with the strongest open-source contenders.