MiniMax · 2025-10-23
MiniMax M2 pricing
MiniMax-M2 is a compact, high-efficiency large language model optimized for end-to-end coding and agentic workflows.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What MiniMax M2 costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $23.71 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $321 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $208 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Laguna XS 2.1 free variant | poolside | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.03 | 262K | $4.14 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other MiniMax models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | 1.05M | $13.95 |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.06 | 1.05M | $27.90 |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.06 | 205K | $27.90 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 205K | $27.90 |
| MiniMax M2-her | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 66K | $27.90 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 205K | $27.90 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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MiniMax M2: questions
How much does MiniMax M2 cost?
$0.255 per 1M input tokens and $1.02 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0008.
What is MiniMax M2’s context window?
204,800 tokens, with up to 131,072 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to MiniMax M2?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches MiniMax M2’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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