MiniMax-M2.5 Free

MiniMax-M2.5 Free is a deprecated, no-cost tier of MiniMax's M2.5 family, previously routed through OpenCode Zen and now archived on third-party aggregators. The underlying M2.5 model is described in independent directories as a state-of-the-art language model purpose-built for real-world productivity, with an emphasis on software engineering, office-document tasks across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, web browsing, and multi-step agentic workflows that lean on reasoning and tool use. A third-party listing explicitly reports an 80.2% score on SWE-Bench Verified, framing M2.5 as a top performer for real-world coding tasks alongside its broader productivity positioning.

Practically, the free tier was aimed at developers and knowledge workers who needed a long-context assistant for complex development and document work, and it was offered at zero cost with a context window in the roughly 196K-token range and a maximum output of around 8K tokens on at least one host, figures that differ from catalog limit metadata and should be treated as distributor-specific. Its place in MiniMax's free lineup has been superseded by newer entries such as the M2.7 free tier, which is positioned as a next-generation model for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement, leaving M2.5 Free primarily as a historical option for users who want to compare against current successors rather than a recommended deployment target today.