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In this video, I'll be sharing my early access review of the MiniMax M2.5 model, testing its capabilities in agentic workflows and coding tasks. I'll break down the insane pricing model, compare it to major competitors like Opus and Gemini 3 Flash, and show you live demos of apps built using this new frontier model.

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Key Takeaways:

🚀 MiniMax M2.5 is a new frontier model that rivals Opus 4.6 while being significantly smaller and cheaper.
💸 The pricing is incredibly low at $1 per hour of continuous running (100 tokens/sec) or $0.30 at 50 tokens/sec.
⚡ It comes in two versions: M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning, with the Lightning version offering double the speed of other frontier models.
🛠️ The model excels at agentic tasks and coding, successfully building a Movie Tracker, Calculator, Image Cropper, and full-stack web apps.
📉 M2.5 is roughly 30 times cheaper than Opus and 1/10th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro based on output price.
🏆 It secured the 4th spot on my personal leaderboard, proving to be a "beast" of a workhorse model.
🧠 The model features strong interleaved thinking capabilities, allowing it to self-correct during complex planning tasks.

AICodeKing

MiniMax M2.5 is a 230 billion parameter language model that delivers performance comparable to Claude Opus at 1/30th the cost. The model excels at agentic coding tasks, costs $1 per hour at 100 tokens/second, and successfully completed multiple complex development projects including Expo apps, Go terminal calculators, and full-stack web applications. Testing showed it performs particularly well in code generation workflows with planning mode enabled, completing tasks in minutes with proper error correction.

MiniMax M2.5 (Fully Tested): I've been testing it for the last 4 days and it is AMAZING!!!