whatmodel.sh / MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax-M2.7 is an open-weights language model from MiniMax, released March 2026. Its published size is 230B parameters (10B active per token) and a 205k-token context window. Licence: minimax-non-commercial.

67.8±0.7#105 of 719 LLMsfrom 31 benchmark results across 8 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of MiniMax-M2.7, out of 828 with a score, then more from MiniMax.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
118Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental (03-25) Google68±3comparison only2025-03
119Grok 4 (0709) SpaceXAI (xAI)68±1comparison only2025-07
120MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax68±1api $0.53/M +local~75GB2026-03
121Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba68±1api $0.31/M +local~23GB2026-04
122Ornith 1.0 35B (35B-A3B) DeepReinforce68±1local~23GB2026-06
more from MiniMax
84MiniMax-M3 MiniMax70±1api $0.48/M +local~137GB2026-06
150MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax66±1api $0.53/M +local~75GB2026-02
154MiniMax-M2.1 MiniMax66±1local~79GB2025-12

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #77 of 300 · 22% of its score · 7 tests

Beats GPT-5, Gemini 3 Flash (Preview), Grok 4.20 (0309 reasoning) here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
SWE-bench Verified75.3% ✎█····██·████ beats 4/6hard · avg 22%▇▇ 6.2%sharp · at its level
SWE-bench Multilingual71.8% ✎▄··▄▄···▄▄·█ beats 2/6hard · avg 30%▇▇ 4.4%at its level
Terminal-Bench 2.155.5% ✎█··▄█·▄····▄ beats 3/6very hard · avg 12%▇▇ 4.1%at its level
BrowseComp54.1% ✎▄·▄▄···▄··█▄ beats 3/6hard · avg 16%▇ 2.3%at its level
τ³-bench66.1% ✎▄····▄·█·▄·█ beats 0/6medium · avg 40%▇ 2.0%blunt · at its level
τ³-bench telecom (tau2-bench ≥ v1.0.1)89.6% ✎▄·▄···▄·▄·█▄ beats 0/6easy · avg 77%▇ 1.5%maxed out
TerminalWorld-Verified (200 tasks) with Terminus-249.0% ✎▄··▄·▄·█···▄ beats 0/5hard · avg 27%▇ 0.9%blunt · at its level
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #89 of 458 · 28% of its score · 7 tests

Beats Grok 4.20 (0309 reasoning), GPT-5.1, Grok 4.3 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena WebDev (Code Arena)1397.0 ✎▁▂▄▃▅█▄▇▆▄▁▁ beats 44/119avg 981▇▇▇ 7.7%sharp
SWE-bench Verified75.3% ✎█····██·████ beats 4/6hard · avg 22%▇▇ 6.2%sharp · at its level
SWE-bench Multilingual71.8% ✎▄··▄▄···▄▄·█ beats 2/6hard · avg 30%▇▇ 4.4%at its level
LiveCodeBench v6 (window unspecified)77.2% ✎██···█··████ beats 0/6medium · avg 45%▇ 3.0%typical
SciCode subproblems38.3% ✎▃····▃··█·▃▃ beats 0/6hard · avg 17%▇ 2.6%at its level
LiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025)69.8% ✎▄··█····▄▄·█ beats 0/6medium · avg 45%▇ 2.3%typical
SciCode (level unspecified)47.0% ✎▄·····▄█▄▄·▄ beats 5/6hard · avg 16%▇ 2.1%at its level
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #93 of 393 * · 4.3% of its score · 1 test

Beats LongCat 2.0 (1.6T-A48B), Inkling Small (266B-A12B), GPT-5.4 nano here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 4 12B, Kimi K2 Instruct (0905), Gemma 4 26B-A4B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1415.0 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 264/379avg 1268▇▇ 4.3%blunt
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #165 of 398 * · 4.7% of its score · 2 tests

Trails Olmo 3 7B Think, Nemotron Nano 9B v2, Qwen3-VL 4B Thinking here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
IMO-AnswerBench68.3% ✎▄····▄·▄▄·█▄ beats 0/6medium · avg 40%▇ 2.5%typical
AIME 202688.8% ✎▄·▄·▄▄··█··▄ beats 1/6medium · avg 56%▇ 2.2%sharp · noisy
web search▂▁▂▆▄█▃▃▁▁·▁ #67 of 80 * · 2.3% of its score · 1 test

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview, Apr 2026), Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B, GLM-4.7 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18), Mistral Small 3.1 24B (2503) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BrowseComp54.1% ✎▄·▄▄···▄··█▄ beats 3/6hard · avg 16%▇ 2.3%at its level
other tests15 not in a task · 52% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond87.4% ✎▄·····▄█▄▄·▄ beats 4/6hard · avg 45%▇▇▇▇ 9.1%sharp
GPQA (subset unspecified)86.6% ✎▄█▄▄·▄·····▄ beats 1/6hard · avg 47%▇▇▇ 8.2%sharp
Humanity's Last Exam +123.1% ✎▄··█▄··▄·▄·▄ beats 0/6very hard · avg 5.6%▇▇▇ 7.5%several runs
MMLU-Pro81.9% ✎▄·····▄▄▄·▄█ beats 0/6medium · avg 53%▇▇ 4.7%typical
Global-MMLU-Lite87.3% ✎▃······▅··█▃ beats 1/6medium · avg 60%▇▇ 4.4%typical
MMLU-ProX78.4% ✎▄·····▄·▄▄█▄ beats 0/6medium · avg 57%▇ 2.5%typical
IFBench (aggregation unspecified)75.7% ✎▃······█▃▃·▃ beats 1/6medium · avg 44%▇ 2.4%at its level
AgentWorldBench (open-ended, overall)46.1% ✎▄▄··▄▄·▄█▄██ beats 0/11hard · avg 25%▇ 2.4%blunt · at its level
7 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WildClawBench33.8% ✎▃·▅▅█·▅█▅▃▃▃ beats 5/17very hard · avg 11%▇ 2.3%at its level
IFBench prompt-level (loose)74.6% ✎▄▄·▄··▄▄···█ beats 1/6medium · avg 45%▇ 2.2%at its level
MultiChallenge42.5% ✎▃··········█ beats 0/6hard · avg 27%▇ 1.9%at its level
WideSearch corrected dataset75.2% ✎▃······▃▃▃█▃ beats 6/7hard · avg 20%▇ 1.5%at its level · noisy
SkillsBench 87-task subset28.4% ✎▄··▄▄▄···█·█ beats 3/7very hard · avg 8.2%▇ 1.4%at its level
CritPt0.6% ✎▄····▄█···█▄ beats 0/6very hard · avg 1.0%▇ 0.9%too hard for it · noisy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)87.1% ✎▁▂▁▂▅█▂▃▄▃▁▁ beats 18/98very easy · avg 90%▇ 0.0%blunt

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $0.52/M · $0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens · 205k context · platform.minimax.io ↗ · price sourceUSD per 1M tokens, MiniMax Open Platform pay-as-you-go, MiniMax-M2.7: input $0.3, output $1.2. Prompt-cache read $0.06 and write $0.375, and MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed ($0.6/$2.4) excluded. Currency: USD. MiniMax pay-as-you-go pricing page, observed 2026-09-25.

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run MiniMax-M2.7 · needs ~138.5 GB · from huggingface.co/unsloth
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf unsloth/MiniMax-M2.7-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf unsloth/MiniMax-M2.7-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run MiniMax-M2.7 · needs ~138.5 GB · from huggingface.co/unsloth

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M2.7-GGUF@UD-Q4_K_XL -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

MLX (Mac)

version

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run MiniMax-M2.7 · needs ~128.7 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/mlx-community
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.7-4bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.7-4bit

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI ↗

$ how the score was worked out · NVIDIA — Nemotron 3 Ultra tec… 53%, A.X K2 Technical Report (SK T… 26%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 12% and 5 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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