MiniMax Drops M2.5 With Rock-Bottom Pricing
Chinese AI lab MiniMax launches M2.5, promising high-quality intelligence at a fraction of competitor costs.
MiniMax just dropped M2.5 with pricing that'll make OpenAI sweat. The company is charging $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens.
That's dirt cheap. For context, most frontier models charge several times more for comparable performance.
The company claims M2.5 delivers on the "intelligence too cheap to meter" promise — a bold statement that echoes the early nuclear power hype. The model was extensively trained using reinforcement learning techniques.
MiniMax is betting that aggressive pricing will drive adoption. Whether M2.5 can actually compete with pricier alternatives on quality remains the real question.
But at these rates, developers will definitely kick the tires. The AI price war just got another combatant.