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| 3 models | minimaxMiniMax: MiniMax M2.5Remove × | MiniMaxAIMiniMax-M3Remove × | anthropicAnthropic: Claude Opus 5.5Remove × |
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| What’s different | 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... | MiniMax-M3 is a native multimodal model with 1M context. It has ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters. | Always-on adaptive thinking defaults to medium effort; built for sustained work across large codebases and professional documents. |
| Date | Feb 12, 2026Listed | Jun 2, 2026Listed | Sep 22, 2026Released |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | |||
| Listed rate | $0.27 in / $1.08 out/ 1M tokensStreamLake · via OpenRouter · all routes ↗streamlake | $0.28 in / $1.10 out/ 1M tokensdeepinfra · via Hugging Face · all routes ↗ | $4.00 in / $20.00 out/ 1M tokensAmazon Bedrock · via OpenRouter · all routes ↗amazon-bedrock |
| Provider endpoints | 12 endpoints → | 7 endpoints → | 14 endpoints → |
Benchmarks Each result retains its evaluation configuration | |||
| AA Intelligence ↗4.3.2 | Not reported | Not reported | 57.62 ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| AA-Briefcase ↗1.1 | Not reported | Not reported | 1,802.99 ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| GDPval-AA ↗2.1 | Not reported | Not reported | 1,866.27 ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| AutomationBench-AA ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 69.54% ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 · AA ↗ | Not reported | Not reported | 59.6% ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackHarness unreportedIndependent result |
| SciCode ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 66.9% ↗AA · Under reviewEffort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| Humanity’s Last Exam ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 61.35% ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| GDP.pdf ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 26.2% ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| CritPt ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 31.71% ↗AA · Under reviewEffort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| AA-Omniscience ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection | Not reported | Not reported | 46.42 ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| AA-LCR ↗1.1 | Not reported | Not reported | 84.67% ↗Effort: max · Max, Default FallbackIndependent result |
| LiveBench ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 86.53% ↗Effort: max · single run · equal mean of 7 suitesIndependent result |
| LiveBench Design ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 86.9% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Research ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 85% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Browser Use ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 80% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Coding ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 96.3% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Agentic ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 85% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Data Analysis ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 80.3% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
| LiveBench Reasoning ↗2.0 · 2026-10-14 (dataset 2026-09-02) | Not reported | Not reported | 92.2% ↗Effort: max · single runIndependent result |
Specifications | |||
| Context window | 204.8K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 32.8K | — | 128K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Structured output | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Image input | Not reported | Supported | Supported |
| Reasoning | Supported | Not reported | Supported |
| Prompt caching | Supported | Not reported | Supported |
| Open weights | Supported | Supported | Not reported |