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MiniMax-M2

MiniMax OPEN Apache 2.0
Verdict

MiniMax-M2 is behind the leaders: #231 of 406 by SIscope score. Strongest at reasoning & knowledge, weaker at coding. Cheaper than 74% of priced models. Weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

SIscope score
40
#231 of 406
Human-vote rank
#216
of 419 · score 1340
Price per 1M tokens, blended
$0.45
$0.26 in · $1.02 out
Context window
205K
204,800 tokens

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsno data yetReasoningMathChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding32
Agents & toolsNo data yet–
Reasoning & knowledge51
Math46
Chat quality48
Following instructions51

What goes into each category · Compare with Gemini 4 Carbon

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

133513401345Oct 20: 1340.1 (rank #215)Oct 22: 1340.2 (rank #214)Oct 28: 1340.1 (rank #216)Oct 20Oct 28

Coding votes over time

WebDev arena, recent updates.

129012981305Oct 16: 1297.2 (rank #124)Oct 18: 1297.1 (rank #125)Oct 19: 1297.1 (rank #128)Oct 22: 1297.2 (rank #129)Oct 23: 1297.1 (rank #130)Oct 27: 1297.3 (rank #131)Oct 28: 1297.1 (rank #132)Oct 16Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

No Epoch AI runs for this model yet.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#216 of 41913401332–13486,850Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
#132 of 15212971286–13086,683Oct 28, 2026
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
Not on this board yet

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

Input
$0.26
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.02
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.45
3 in : 1 out, per 1M
Context window
205K
max tokens per request
Speed
Coming soon
our own tests

List price from the OpenRouter models API (minimax/minimax-m2), Nov 4, 2026. Providers can charge differently.