What the evidence says
- Developer
- MiniMax
- Released
- October 27, 2025
- Domains
- Language
- Tasks
- Code generation · System control · Search · Language modeling/generation · Question answering
- Access
- Open weights (unrestricted)
- Weights
- Open weights
Across the boards
Each row is one named authority's own current view. Nothing is combined.
- LMArena overall
- 1346.0 · rank #191 · 6,860 battles · published July 20, 2026 · board
- LMArena coding arena
- 1384.9 · rank #193 · board
- LMArena creative writing arena
- 1287.4 · rank #218 · board
- LMArena instruction following arena
- 1339.3 · rank #181 · board
- LMArena hard prompts arena
- 1368.6 · rank #178 · board
- LMArena multi-turn arena
- 1363.7 · rank #164 · board
- LMArena long queries arena
- 1343.4 · rank #191 · board
- LMArena math arena
- 1355.1 · rank #176 · board
- LMArena web development arena
- 1304.4 · rank #53 · board
Benchmark results
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub scores for this reviewed identity. Rows with a scaffold are system results, not bare-model results. Fraction-unit scores shown as percentages.
- Terminal-Bench
- 30.0% · Terminus 2
Platform facts
OpenRouter's platform listing, retrieved July 22, 2026. Routed platform prices, not first-party provider prices.
- Input price
- $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Context length
- 204,800 tokens
- Listed on OpenRouter
- October 23, 2025
Common questions
What is MiniMax-M2?
MiniMax-M2 is a MiniMax model released October 27, 2025, according to Epoch AI's reviewed catalog record. The record classifies it under language.
How does MiniMax-M2 rank on LMArena?
In the LMArena style-controlled text snapshot published July 20, 2026, MiniMax-M2 holds official rank 191 with a rating of 1346.0 across 6,860 battles.
What does MiniMax-M2 cost?
OpenRouter lists it at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, retrieved July 22, 2026. Those are the platform's routed prices, not first-party provider prices.