MiniMax · China · Released 2025-10

MiniMax-M2

MiniMax's open MoE tuned for coding and agentic workflows, positioned as a cost-efficient Claude alternative.

Official site

Access

open-weights

Context

200,000 tokens

Modalities

text

Languages

40+

Benchmark scores

MMLU

82.0%

Massive Multitask Language Understanding

GPQA

N/A

Graduate-level science QA (Diamond)

HumanEval

90.4%

Python code completion

SWE-bench

55.7%

Real GitHub issue resolution (Verified)

LiveCodeBench

N/A

Contamination-free coding

AIME

N/A

American Invitational Mathematics Exam

MMMU

N/A

Multimodal college-level reasoning

MATH

N/A

Competition-level math word problems

Scores as reported by the vendor or leading public leaderboards. "N/A" means the score has not been publicly disclosed for this metric.

Explain like I'm 5

Cheap open model that's great at coding and being an agent.

Key features

MoE
Agent tuning
Open weights

Strengths

Cost/perf
Agentic coding

Limitations

Text-only

Best for

Open coding agents

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