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MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMaxReleased 12 Feb 2026OpenDate verified
146135–158Index score#65 of 229 models
2/ 8Core tests taken2 of 6 areas · plus 4 anchor tests
−24Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.3-CodexReplaced by MiniMax-M2.7
$0.27/ $1.08Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
205KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o3 reached this score 10 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeno evidence yet
GPQA Diamond
no result
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
43%
Agentsno evidence yet
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
5%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by MiniMax-M2.7; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released12 Feb 2026
Announcementhuggingface.co ↗
Release entryMiniMax-M2.5
Scored asMiniMax-M2.5
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

MiniMax releasesaround this one