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It needs a 4 GPU server for FP8 or about 166 GB for a 4-bit library build, and it always thinks. The main risk is the licence, switched to non-commercial two days after release.", "bestFor": "Researchers and personal projects with a 4 to 8 GPU server who want an open agent and coding model with parallel tool calls", "strengths": [ "Runs in released vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Transformers and LM Studio", "Tool-call format documented by MiniMax with named vLLM and SGLang parsers and a parsing function", "Several tool calls in one block, and about 200K tokens of context", "Safetensors only, in the publisher's organisation with a SHA-256 for every shard", "No gate or account, and served by three inference providers on Hugging Face" ], "weaknesses": [ "Commercial use needs MiniMax's written authorisation since a licence swap on 11 April 2026, made without a note", "230 GB in FP8, and about 166 GB for the smallest 4-bit library build, more than a 128 GB machine", "Thinking is always on, with no documented way to turn it off or budget it", "No safety evaluation, agent guidance or security contact, and every loading route runs repository code", "No MiniMax reply in discussions since June 2026, and the card leaves out limitations, architecture, parameters and a cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the use is personal, research or non-profit before starting it; anything commercial needs MiniMax's written authorisation, and commercial users must show Built with MiniMax M2.7", "Start it with vLLM on 4 GPUs of 96 GB, SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think", "In SGLang use --tool-call-parser minimax-m2 and --reasoning-parser minimax-append-think, with --trust-remote-code", "MiniMax's guides budget 220 GB for the weights and 240 GB per 1M tokens of KV cache, with 196K the most per sequence", "On one large-memory machine, LM Studio's catalogue entry minimax/minimax-m2.7 lists a 138 GB Q4_K_M GGUF and states 138 GB minimum memory", "Sample with temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and top_k 40, as the card recommends, and budget output tokens for thinking on every turn", "Pin Transformers 4.57.1 as MiniMax's guide does; a report that it fails on Transformers v5 has no answer", "Without the hardware, call it through Novita, Featherless AI or DeepInfra; MiniMax's own API retires M2.7 on 18 November 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 1.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 71, "interface": 75, "reach": 60, "risk": 30, "upkeep": 27 }, "provenanceScore": 55, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-10-21", "grade": "C", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.6", "score": 56.1 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "# MiniMax's vLLM guide, 4 GPUs\nuv pip install vllm --torch-backend=auto\nSAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 --trust-remote-code \\\n --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 \\\n --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}], \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95, \"top_k\": 40}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-m2-7" }, "reviews": [ { "id": "rev_3935", "tool": "minimax-m2-7", "toolUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7", "rating": 1, "title": "Licence swapped two days after release, no note", "body": "MiniMax released M2.7 on 9 April 2026 under a licence allowing commercial use, replaced it with a non-commercial one on 11 April and added a clause on 14 April, with no note on the card. The last change, on 20 April, moved max_position_embeddings from 196,608 to 204,800. 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No local build is in the library (https://ollama.com/library/minimax-m2.7)", "LM Studio's catalogue entry minimax/minimax-m2.7 uses lmstudio-community's GGUF builds, Q4_K_M at 138.3 GB, and states 138 GB minimum memory (https://lmstudio.ai/models/minimax/minimax-m2.7)", "Three inference providers are live for it on Hugging Face (Novita, Featherless AI and DeepInfra), and OpenRouter lists six endpoints including MiniMax's own (https://huggingface.co/api/models/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the commit history, the chat template, the deployment and tool-calling guides, the licence as it is today and at each earlier revision, MiniMax's GitHub repository MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M2.7 (raw files only) and the runtimes' own code and catalogues on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. MiniMax's hosted API is its own listing" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "A sparse mixture of experts, MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM, with 62 layers, 256 experts of which 8 are routed per token, and 3 multi-token prediction modules. 228,689,764,864 parameters in the files per Hugging Face's metadata. The card states neither the parameter count nor the architecture; LM Studio's catalogue says 230B total and 10B active. Text in, text out" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "125 safetensors shards in F8_E4M3 with BF16 and F32 for the rest, 230.2 GB in all. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every shard. The repository also holds Python model code (modeling_minimax_m2.py, configuration_minimax_m2.py) named in config.json's auto_map, and the repository is tagged custom_code" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "Today a non-commercial licence on MIT-style terms. Commercial use (paid products, commercial APIs, serving fine-tuned derivatives commercially) needs MiniMax's prior written authorisation, and commercial users must show \"Built with MiniMax M2.7\". Personal use including self-hosted agent and app development, and non-profit or academic research, are free. A Prohibited Uses appendix bans military use among others. At release on 9 April 2026 the repository carried the MiniMax Model License instead (royalty-free, commercial use allowed, Singapore law); it was replaced on 11 April and amended on 14 April without a dated note. The card's licence link to GitHub answers with the same text" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "MiniMax's guides for vLLM, SGLang (0.5.4.post1 or later) and Transformers 4.57.1, plus NVIDIA NIM and ModelScope. Model code in released vLLM (v0.32.0, with minimax_m2 tool and reasoning parsers), SGLang (v0.5.22), llama.cpp (minimax-m2 at b11768), Transformers 5.20.0 (minimax_m2) and mlx-lm. LM Studio's catalogue has a GGUF entry. Ollama's entry is cloud only" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "204,800 tokens in config.json since a change on 20 April 2026 (196,608 at release), with no rope scaling. MiniMax's vLLM and SGLang guides still say the most per sequence is 196K. The card itself doesn't state it" }, { "label": "Tools and reasoning", "value": "Tools are declared as JSON Schema in `\u003ctools\u003e` and calls come back as `\u003cinvoke name=...\u003e` with `\u003cparameter name=...\u003e` inside `\u003cminimax:tool_call\u003e`, several per block, documented in MiniMax's tool-calling guide with a parsing function. Parsers are minimax_m2 in vLLM and minimax-m2 in SGLang. The template opens every reply with `\u003cthink\u003e` and has no switch to turn thinking off; earlier reasoning is kept after the last user turn. Recommended sampling `temperature=1.0`, `top_p=0.95`, `top_k=40`" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "MiniMax's guides state 220 GB for the weights and 240 GB per 1M tokens of KV cache, GPUs of compute capability 7.0 or higher, and give 4 × 96 GB GPUs (400K tokens of cache in all) and 8 × 144 GB GPUs (3M) as configurations. The smallest 4-bit library build, LM Studio's Q4_K_M GGUF, is 138.3 GB. Nothing fits in 128 GB" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "Not described. The card and MiniMax's blog describe a self-evolution process in which an internal version of the model ran its own reinforcement-learning experiments and scaffold optimisation, with no sources, sizes or knowledge cut-off" }, { "label": "Status", "value": "MiniMax-M3 (2 June 2026) is newer, in its own repository. MiniMax's API closed M2.7 to new users on 19 October 2026 and retires it on 18 November 2026; its model list already marks M2.7 as retired. The weights stay up" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "MiniMax (named in the licence's copyright line; MiniMax's platform terms name Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., Singapore)", "domain": "minimax.io", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The current licence reads Copyright (c) 2026 MiniMax. The platform terms' legal entity and the domain's registration date are as recorded on the minimax-api listing.", "Nothing is hosted, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. Commit messages are uploads and README or LICENSE updates; the licence change on 11 April 2026 reads only \"Delete LICENSE-MODEL\" and \"Upload LICENSE with huggingface_hub\".", "www.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the home page on 21 October 2026, and MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M2.7 has no SECURITY.md, so there is no security.txt.", "MiniMax's site (www.minimax.io/models/text) links to huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI, and the card links the GitHub repository, so the repository is the publisher's own." ], "score": 55, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "MiniMax (named in the licence's copyright line; MiniMax's platform terms name Nanonoble Pte. 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