MiniMax: MiniMax M2 by Minimax — $0.255 input / $1.02 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 204K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.140 | $4.21 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $0.765 | $22.95 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $10.20 | $306.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $229.50 | $6885.00 |
minimax/minimax-m2MiniMax: MiniMax M2 is an LLM developed by Minimax. Input costs $0.255 per million tokens and output costs $1.02 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 204K tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including MiniMax: MiniMax M2. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is minimax/minimax-m2.
Use the AI Model Cost Comparison tool to compare MiniMax: MiniMax M2 against GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro, or any other model side by side. Or use the LLM API Cost Calculator to browse all 456+ models sorted by cost for your specific usage.
minimax/minimax-m2. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.