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MiniMax M2.5: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby MiniMaxOpen weights · with termsReleased Feb 12, 2026

MiniMax M2.5 is a text model by MiniMax. 26 providers serve it, from $0.95 to $2.40 /1M; the lowest price is at Venice AI.

Lowest price$0.95/1Mat Venice AI
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers26
Context205KMax output 131K

How MiniMax M2.5 compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.95 /1M against a median of $1.10; 48% of comparable models cost less.
  • Its 205K-token context window is larger than 37% of them (median 262K), about 310 pages of text.
  • On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #59 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
  • 26 providers serve it; 93% of comparable models have fewer.
  • Its weights are open under the modified-mit license: commercial use under the maker's terms.

MiniMax M2.5 prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
Venice AI$0.27/1M$0.95/1M$0.03/1M—
APIMart$0.24/1M$0.96/1M——
CometAPI$0.24/1M$0.96/1M$0.048/1M—
Requesty$0.28/1MFrom$1.10/1M$0.03/1M197K
AIHubMix$0.288/1MFrom$1.15/1M—205K
ZenMux$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M205K
Ofox$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M200K
Novita AI$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M—
OpenCode$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.06/1M—
Hugging Face$0.30/1MFrom$1.20/1M——
OrcaRouter$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M205K
Vercel AI Gateway$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M205K
OpenRouter$0.30/1MFrom$1.20/1M$0.03/1M205K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.30/1MFrom$1.20/1M$0.03/1M—
APIYI$0.30/1M$1.20/1M——
LaoZhang API$0.30/1M$1.20/1M——
CrazyRouter$0.30/1M$1.20/1M——
Atlas Cloud$0.295/1M$1.20/1M$0.06/1M—
Amazon Bedrock$0.30/1MFrom$1.20/1M——
FastRouter$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M197K
Jiekou.AI$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.03/1M—
AI/ML API$0.30/1M$1.20/1M$0.30/1M—
Poe$0.303/1M$1.21/1M—197K
Azure$0.33/1MFrom$1.32/1M$0.033/1M—
Cortecs$0.349/1M$1.40/1M——
Prime Inference$0.60/1M$2.40/1M——
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. Venice AI$0.95
  2. APIMart$0.96
  3. CometAPI$0.96
  4. RequestyFrom$1.10
  5. AIHubMixFrom$1.15
  6. ZenMux$1.20
  7. Ofox$1.20
  8. Novita AI$1.20
  9. OpenCode$1.20
  10. OrcaRouter$1.20
  11. Vercel AI Gateway$1.20
  12. APIYI$1.20
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
MiniMax
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Context
205K≈ 310 pages of text
Max output
131K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling
Released
Feb 12, 2026
License
modified-mitcommercial use under the maker's terms
Open weights
Yes, downloadable
Parameters
229B
Arena score
1386WebDev
Monthly searches
9K
Get the weightsHugging FaceGitHub1M downloads in 30 days

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