MiniMax M2.7 Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-04-27
Self-hosted (Free)
- ✓MIT license on M2 / M2.5
- ✓M2.7 license listed as 'Other' on HuggingFace -- verify before commercial use
- ✓Weights on Hugging Face (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7)
API (M2 / M2.5 reference, MiniMax / OpenRouter)
- ✓M2: $0.30 in / $1.20 out
- ✓192K+ context
- ✓Native agentic + tool-use
API (M2.7)
- ✓M2.7 per-token pricing not posted on platform.minimax.io/subscribe/token-plan as of 2026-04-27 -- verify before quoting in production planning
Is MiniMax M2.7 Worth the Price?
Value Score: 9.5/10
Overall Score: 8.4/10 · Agentic coding and tool-use workflows on a budget. Best price-to-SWE-Bench ratio of any open-weights model in 2026.
MiniMax M2/M2.5 is the most cost-efficient frontier-tier open model in 2026. The 80.2% SWE-Bench Verified score is a genuine breakthrough -- matching Claude Opus 4.6 on real coding tasks at a tenth of the price. The sparse 10B-active MoE runs fast on moderate hardware. The main drawback is ecosystem: MiniMax has less Western infrastructure support than Alibaba or DeepSeek. If you're building an agentic product and want maximum value per token, M2.5 is an A-tier pick.
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How MiniMax M2.7 Pricing Compares
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Price | Value Score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M2.7(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.4 |
| Qwen (Alibaba) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.8 |
| Gemma 4 (Google) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.3 |
| IBM Granite 4.0 | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.2 |
| Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) | Yes | $0 | 8.5/10 | 8.1 |
| gpt-oss (OpenAI) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.1 |