> MiniMax-M2.7 is an open-weights AI model from MiniMax, released 18 Mar 2026. Index score 143 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 81 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.21 in / $0.84 out per million tokens, 205K context.

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# MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax

Released 18 Mar 2026

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/minimax-m2-7-vs-gpt-5-4/) [Run it yourself →](https://themodelindex.org/local/) [Announcement](https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m27-en)

143131–156

Index score

#81 · provisional, limited data

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 3 anchor tests

−27

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5.4

Replaced by [MiniMax-M3](https://themodelindex.org/models/minimax-m3/)

$0.21/ $0.84

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

205K

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

o3 reached this score 11 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 2 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

45%

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no 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 say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#81

of 219 · 143

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#97

of 383 · 1480

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#108

of 373 · 1422

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#73

of 239 · 145.9

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#119

of 388 · 1415

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#143

of 386 · 1364

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#78

of 123 · 1397

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 at · top three among current models

Replaced by MiniMax-M3; 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 it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

MiniMax Agent

app · subscription

↗

MiniMax API

API

↗

#### API providers · 7 · per million tokens, in / out

G

GMICloud

$0.21 / $0.84 · fp8

cheapest

M

Mara

$0.24 / $0.96

↗

N

Novita

$0.27 / $1.08 · fp8

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A

AtlasCloud

$0.30 / $1.2 · fp8

↗

M

Minimax

$0.60 / $2.4 · fp8

↗

G

Groq

$0.60 / $1.8

↗

S

SambaNova

$0.60 / $2.4

↗

#### Run it yourself

🤗

Official weights

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

18 Mar 2026

Announcement

[minimax.io ↗](https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m27-en)

Release entry

MiniMax-M2.7

Scored as

MiniMax-M2.7

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

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Hugging Face

[MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 ↗](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7)

## MiniMax releases · around this one

MiniMax-M2.1

Open

23 DEC 2025

MiniMax-M2.5

Open

12 FEB 2026

index 146

MiniMax-M2.7

Open

18 MAR 2026

index 143

MiniMax-M3

Open

1 JUN 2026

index 145

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/minimax-m2-7/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01