MiniMax M2.5 Released: SOTA Coding and Agentic AI at 8% the Cost of Claude Sonnet
Breaking news from MiniMax: the company has officially released M2.5, the latest entry in its M2 model family — and the benchmarks are going to raise some eyebrows. SOTA on coding. Twice the speed of its predecessor. And priced so aggressively that the company’s own marketing frames it as “intelligence too cheap to meter.” At $1 per continuous hour of inference at 100 tokens per second, or $0.30 at 50 tokens/sec, MiniMax M2.5 is targeting a very specific pain point for anyone building with agentic AI at scale: cost. ...