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- Released
- 16 Jun 2025
- Status
- Legacy
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- —
- Input per 1M tokens
- —
- Output per 1M tokens
- —
- Open weights
- Yes
- License
- apache-2.0
- Parameters
- 456B, 45.9B active
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Modalities
- text → text
Category scores
Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.
| Category | Score | Rank | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human preference | 44.8 | Not ranked | 1 of 5 |
Benchmark results
Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.
Long context
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | % correct at 16K tokens (Epoch's column) | 69.4% | Third party | — | — | Fiction.live leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Human preference
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1364 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 34045 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
Other MiniMax M versions
- MiniMax-M31 Jun 2026
- MiniMax-M2.718 Mar 2026
- MiniMax-M2.5Feb 2026
- MiniMax-M2.122 Dec 2025
- MiniMax-M227 Oct 2025
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview—