MiniMax-M2.5 vs Laguna-M.1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

MiniMaxAI · A · Open weights
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
859 K
poolside · B · Open weights
Params
225.8 B
Context
262,144
30d
568 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification MiniMax-M2.5 Laguna-M.1
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 228.7 B 225.8 B
Architecture MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM LagunaForCausalLM
Context length 196,608 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 859,423 568,241
Downloads all time 5.8 M 585 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-12 2026-06-15
API input price / 1M tokens $0.27 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.95 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.22 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.03 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 22.8 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 32,768 not on OpenRouter
API providers 7 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

MiniMax-M2.5 $1.22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

859 K199 K
MiniMax-M2.5 Laguna-M.1

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
❌ Won’t fit
Laguna-M.1 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 1,581.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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