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MiniMax M2-her: pricing, context and benchmarks
MiniMax M2-her is MiniMax's model released on January 23, 2026. It costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens, with a 65.5K-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
| Price | 17/30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 2/15 | |
| Features | 0/15 |
What you need to know about MiniMax M2-her
MiniMax, based in China, put MiniMax M2-her online on January 23, 2026. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 65,536 tokens, larger than 12 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 2,048 tokens in one go.
It has been available for about 9 months, long enough for its prices and scores to have settled.
MiniMax M2-her pricing
On OpenRouter, MiniMax M2-her costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $0.525 per million, more expensive than 43 % of paid models (1.5 times cheaper than the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.0012. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $36 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Tokens already sent and cached are billed at $0.03 per million.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for MiniMax M2-her. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
Its weights are not published: it can only be used through the MiniMax API or a broker such as OpenRouter, which means sending your data off your machines.
Other MiniMax models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Oct 19, 2026 | $0.26 | — |
| MiniMax M3 | May 31, 2026 | $0.53 | 146.9 |
| MiniMax M2.7 | Mar 18, 2026 | $0.53 | 145.8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | Feb 12, 2026 | $0.53 | 146.6 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.53 | — |
| MiniMax M2 | Oct 23, 2025 | $0.45 | — |
| MiniMax M1 | Jun 17, 2025 | $0.96 | — |
| MiniMax-01 | Jan 15, 2025 | $0.43 | — |
Verdict
Computed score: 32/100, from public data (performance, price, context, features).
Limitations
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- your data must not leave your servers;
- you are building an agent that must call tools.
Alternatives
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)$0.56
- Perceptron Mk1.5$0.49
- Perceptron Mk1$0.49
- Skyfall 36B V2$0.61
- Gemma 2 27B$0.65
- Weaver (alpha)$0.49
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does MiniMax M2-her cost?
$0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.0012.
How big is MiniMax M2-her's context window?
65,536 tokens, roughly 49,000 words, with a maximum of 2,048 output tokens.
Can MiniMax M2-her run locally?
No, MiniMax does not publish its weights: it is API-only.
Is MiniMax M2-her suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to MiniMax M2-her?
The closest models on price and performance are Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image), Perceptron Mk1.5, and Perceptron Mk1.
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