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MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax · released 6 months ago

MiniMax M2.5 is a MiniMax model with a 197K token context window — about 280 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$0.253

input / 1M tokens

$1.03

output / 1M tokens

197K

context — about 280 pages

0.21¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$0.253 per million tokens
Output
$1.03 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.058 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
MiniMax
Released
6 months ago (2026-02-12)
Context window
197K tokens — about 280 pages
Max output
197K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering

Cost vs Token Amount

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MiniMax M2.5

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

0.1¢

for this task

49% input · 51% output

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Compare MiniMax M2.5

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Questions, answered

How much does MiniMax M2.5 cost on Alyph?

MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.253 per million input tokens and $1.03 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.21¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is MiniMax M2.5's context window?

197K tokens — about 280 pages. Replies can be up to 197K tokens long.

Can MiniMax M2.5 read images and files?

MiniMax M2.5 is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does MiniMax M2.5 show its reasoning?

Yes. MiniMax M2.5 can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

Test MiniMax M2.5 against Qwen3.6 Flash

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