Model index · Text · text generation · standard · Minimax · released 2026-01-23

MiniMax M2-her pricing

Served by 2 providers from $0.5250 to $0.5250 per 1M tokens on the standard tier.

MiniMax M2-her is a dialogue-first large language model built for immersive roleplay, character-driven chat, and expressive multi-turn conversations. Designed to stay consistent in tone and personality, it supports rich message...

Minimax · first published 2026-01-23 · Text model · text generation · 66k context · description as published by the source, not written by us

$0.5250

Cheapest standard /1M — Minimax

66k

Native context window

2

Providers serving it

0

Measured quality /100 · unrated

Measured quality

Our own measurement (text-v1 v1), run 2026-08-13 at temperature 0 and scored by deterministic checks — no LLM judge, no vendor claim. Basic-competence probes: 0/0 passed — only 0 of 12 could be run. Ranking probes: 0/0 passed — only 0 of 5 could be run. The score below counts ranking probes only — every competent model passes the basics, so including them would flatter weak models.

Incomplete run

17 of the 17 probes could not be executed — the provider returned an error rather than an answer, so those checks are missing rather than failed. Ratios above are passes out of probes that actually ran, not out of the full suite.

CapabilityScoreConfidence
coding 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
document understanding 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
factuality 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
instruction following 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
long context 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
math 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
multilingual 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
reasoning 0/100 0 — too low to rank on
safety 0/100 0 — too low to rank on

Every probe, pass or fail

Published so the score can be audited rather than trusted. Ranking probes carry the score; basics are a floor check.

ProbeCapabilityTierResult
instruction-exact-word instruction following basic fail
math-rectangle-area math basic fail
math-percentage-chain math ranking fail
reasoning-relative-order reasoning basic fail
reasoning-negation reasoning basic fail
format-json-extract document understanding basic fail
long-context-needle long context basic fail
instruction-negative-constraint instruction following basic fail
multilingual-exact-translation multilingual basic fail
safety-over-refusal safety basic fail
factuality-stable factuality basic fail
coding-trace-output coding basic fail
math-compound-ordering math ranking fail
long-context-needle-distractors long context basic fail
reasoning-date-arithmetic reasoning ranking fail
instruction-conflicting-order instruction following ranking fail
document-computed-field document understanding ranking fail

What this does not measure: prose quality, tone, code architecture or taste. Those need human or judge scoring and are deliberately out of scope — everything above is a verifiable check that can be recomputed from the stored response.

Every provider and service tier

Standard on-demand rows first, cheapest of each group first. Tiers are not interchangeable — see the note below the table.

Provider In /1M Out /1M Blended /1M Tier Region Source
Minimax cheapest standard $0.3000 $1.20 $0.5250 standard third_party
OpenRouter (default route) *
resells other hosts
$0.3000 $1.20 $0.5250 standard provider_api

* OpenRouter chooses a host for each request, and the figure above is what its default choice costs — not a fixed rate for this model. Selecting a specific host through the same account costs whatever that host charges, which is why this row can sit above or below the hosts listed beside it. Token rates are passed through from the underlying provider with no markup, so the per-1M price above is what that host charges directly — OpenRouter's own charge sits on funding instead: 5.5% (min $0.80) by Stripe or 5% by Coinbase to buy credits, 5% of the equivalent spend if you bring your own provider key. So budget about 5% above the rate shown unless you already hold credit. Fee schedule.

Compare MiniMax M2-her with alternatives

One model per vendor, ordered by how prominent the vendor is and how many independent providers serve the model — hosts only carry what customers ask for, so that is a real demand signal. This is not traffic or popularity data, which we do not have. Every alternative below does the same job — text generation — because a price comparison between a generator and, say, an upscaler is arithmetic rather than advice. Prices on both sides are standard on-demand rates, so the comparison is like for like — a discounted batch or flex rate is never shown against another model’s standard rate.

AlternativeVendor $/1M vs MiniMax M2-her QualityKindContextHosts
MythoMax 13B Gryphe $0.0600
OpenRouter (default route)
89% cheaper not measured standard
open weights
8k 8
Skyfall 36B V2 TheDrummer $0.6125
OpenRouter (default route)
17% dearer not measured standard
open weights
33k 1
Aion-RP 1.0 (8B) AionLabs $1.00
AionLabs
91% dearer not measured standard
open weights
33k 1
Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B Sao10K $0.6750
OpenRouter (default route)
29% dearer not measured standard 131k 1
Weaver (alpha) Mancer $0.5625
Mancer 2
7% dearer not measured standard 8k 1

Prices are the cheapest host for each model, blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio. "Quality" is our own probe suite where we have run it — see what it measures. A cheaper alternative is only a real saving if it also passes on the capability your workload needs.

1 of these alternatives cost less than MiniMax M2-her — the cheapest being MythoMax 13B at $0.0600 per 1M tokens blended (89% cheaper).

Cheaper is not automatically better: check the quality column, and confirm the context window and capabilities your workload depends on before switching.

Before you switch

Identical weights do not guarantee identical output. Check that the cheaper host serves the model at full precision rather than a quantised copy, that its context window matches what you need, and that its rate limits carry your peak traffic. A cheaper host that cannot take your throughput is not cheaper — it is an outage.

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Frequently asked

How much does MiniMax M2-her cost?

The cheapest standard-tier provider is Minimax at $0.5250 per 1M tokens blended (3:1 input:output). Prices change often; verify with the provider before budgeting.

Which provider is best for MiniMax M2-her?

Cheapest is not automatically best. Compare quantisation (a lossy copy of the weights changes output), the context window each host actually serves, and rate limits. Where a provider serves less context than the model's native window we flag it in the table above.

Can I switch providers for MiniMax M2-her without changing code?

Yes, if you route through an abstraction. VernaOne exposes one API across every provider listed here, so switching host is a config change and you keep automatic fallback if the new one degrades.

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