MiniMax M2.5
minimax/minimax-m2.5-20260211
MiniMax M2.5 is a text-to-text model with a context length of 204,800 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning capabilities. Pricing is set at $0.27 per million input tokens and $0.95 per million output tokens.
- tool use
- structured outputs
- reasoning
At a glance
Specifications
What the API gives you
- Context window
- 205K tokens
- Max output
- 33K tokens
- Input price
- $0.27 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.95 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.030 / 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text → text
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Released
- Jan 15, 2025
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- Design Arena Coding
- 1207 Elo2026-10-21
- Design Arena UI
- 1172 Elo2026-10-21
- Design Arena Website
- 1222 Elo2026-10-21
- LMArena Creative Writing
- 1331 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Instruction Following
- 1353 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Long Query
- 1366 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Math
- 1378 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text
- 1391 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text Factuality
- 1385 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena WebDev
- 1386 Elo2026-10-19
- SWE-bench Verified (verified-500)‡
- 75.8%2026-10-21mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0, high effort, evaluated 2026-02-17
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.
Open-weight model on Hugging Face.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence
82% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
42% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence
28% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Show all 30 tasks
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingProvisional evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence
28% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI). 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence
27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence
26% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI). 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMProvisional evidence
25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence
14% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI). 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.
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