MiniMax M2 pricing for security review

Quick start

Call MiniMax M2 with the OpenAI Python SDK pointed at api.minimax.chat:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.minimax.chat/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["MINIMAX_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax-m2",
    max_tokens=2500,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Your prompt here"}]
)
# Cost: ~$0.004060 per call at standard rates
# Input:  $0.26/MTok
# Output: $1.00/MTok

How MiniMax M2 compares on cost

Per-call cost for all models scoring 50+ on security review benchmarks. Hover for details.

Highest-quality affordable option: Claude Sonnet 5 at $0.0370/call (9.1x the cost, 96/100 quality). MiniMax M2 is already the cheapest choice for security review.

What drives security review cost

Security review is the code task where quality is worth paying for: a missed vulnerability costs more than the entire year's inference bill. Input is large (the code plus the threat context) and output is moderate. This is the clearest case on this list for choosing a top-ranked model over the cheapest viable one, and for not batching away the latency you need in CI.

For MiniMax M2 specifically, that means output tokens cost 3.8x more than input, at $1.00 vs $0.26 per MTok. At this use case’s 6,000/2,500 token split, output accounts for 62% of the $0.004060 per-call cost.

MiniMax M2 quality benchmarks for security review

Benchmark data for security review is pending for MiniMax M2. Test against your own evaluation suite before moving to production.

Benchmark data is not yet available for MiniMax M2. We recommend testing against your own evaluation criteria.

About MiniMax M2

Prices from platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview (read 2026-10-11). No cache discount published (set 1.0 — no discount). No batch discount published. Not yet benchmarked, so never recommended.

Other models from MiniMax

You can compare MiniMax M2 head-to-head against any other model on our model comparison pages, or track how pricing has changed over time on the pricing history tracker.

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