MiniMax-M2.5 vs Hy3
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | MiniMax-M2.5 | Hy3 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 228.7 B | 298.8 B |
| Architecture | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM | HYV3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 196,608 | 262,144 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 859,423 | 797,888 |
| Downloads all time | 5.8 M | 842 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-12 | 2026-07-02 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.27 | $0.13 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.95 | $0.53 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.22 | $0.66 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.03 | $0.033 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.8 | — |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 32,768 | 128,000 |
| API providers | 7 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
MiniMax-M2.5
$1.22
Hy3
$0.66
Hy3 is 1.8× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)
859 K188 K
MiniMax-M2.5
Hy3
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
1,077.0 GB / 24 GB
Hy3 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
2,092.0 GB / 24 GB