MiniMax M2 is a large language model with a 204K token context window from MiniMax's M2 generation.
- Strengths
- Handles extended text with its 204K token context window, enabling work across longer documents and complex multi-turn conversations.
- Best for
- Text-based tasks that benefit from a larger context window but don't require multimodal capabilities or the enhanced performance of M2.7 and later models.
- Limitations
- Predated by M2.1 (released 2025-12) and M2.7 (released 2026-03), which offer improved performance; lacks multimodal support available in M3.
Input / 1M
$0.255
Output / 1M
$1.02
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
204K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in decreased 15.0% out decreased 15.0%
- 90d
- in decreased 0.0% out decreased 0.0%
- 1y
- in decreased 0.0% out increased 2.0%
- Since launch
- in decreased 0.0% out increased 2.0%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2026 | $0.255 | $1.02 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Sep 2026 | $0.3 | $1.20 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Sep 2026 | $0.3 | $1.20 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 24 Sep 2026 | $0.3 | $1.20 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 24 Jul 2026 | $0.255 | $1.02 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Jul 2026 | $0.255 | $1.02 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 19 Jul 2026 | $0.3 | $1.20 | $0.03 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 2 Jul 2026 | $0.255 | $1.02 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.255 | $1.00 | $0.03 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |