MiniMax M2-her
About this model
MiniMax M2-her is an AI model from MiniMax, made available through the API on January 23, 2026. It can read up to 65,536 tokens in one request, roughly 123 pages of text, and write up to 2,048 tokens in a single answer.
Through the API it costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. Its pricing sits in the middle of the market.
Quality scores
Rankings →Not rated yet. Independent test results usually appear a few weeks after a model is released.
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 1. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call MiniMax M2-her through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "minimax/minimax-m2-her", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/minimax-m2-her",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "minimax/minimax-m2-her",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$0.51
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.016
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$234
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Frequently asked questions
- How much does MiniMax M2-her cost?
- MiniMax M2-her costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $0.51.
- What is the context window of MiniMax M2-her?
- MiniMax M2-her can read up to 65,536 tokens in one request, about 123 pages of text. It can write up to 2,048 tokens in a single answer.
- Is MiniMax M2-her open source?
- No. MiniMax M2-her is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through MiniMax’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes MiniMax M2-her?
- MiniMax M2-her is made by MiniMax. It became available through the API on January 23, 2026.
- Can MiniMax M2-her read images?
- No. MiniMax M2-her only accepts text as input.
- What are the alternatives to MiniMax M2-her?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include Command A+, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. You can compare them side by side on this page.