MiniMax M2.7 API high-volume value

10B active parameters doing near-flagship work — the cheapest serious model on the market, served at half MiniMax's own price. Built for bulk pipelines, classification, drafts, and agents that run all day.

$0.15 /1M input $0.60 /1M output MiniMax charges $0.30 / $1.20 · Claude Opus 4.8 charges $5 / $25

Benchmarks vs the flagships

Exact versions named; vendor-reported figures (MiniMax release + Moonshot compilation, Apr–Jun 2026).

SWE-Bench Verified

Single-file bug fixes on real repositories — within 3 points of the flagship at ~40× lower output price.

Claude Opus 4.6
80.8
MiniMax M2.7
78.0

SWE-Bench Pro

The harder, contamination-resistant variant — M2.7 lands within 1.5 points of GPT-5.4 and ahead of Claude Opus 4.6.

GPT-5.4 (xhigh)
57.7
MiniMax M2.7
56.2
Claude Opus 4.6
53.4
Only 10B parameters activate per token — that efficiency is why the price can be this low without the quality falling off a cliff.

Cost for real workloads

Provider50M in + 10M out / month
GPT-5.5 ($5 / $30)$550.00
Claude Opus 4.8 ($5 / $25)$500.00
MiniMax M2.7 at its vendor ($0.30 / $1.20)$27.00
MiniMax M2.7 at Khidi ($0.15 / $0.60)$13.50

Quickstart

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://api.khidi.ai/v1",
  api_key="sk-…",
)

client.chat.completions.create(
  model="minimax-m2.7",
  messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "gamarjoba"}],
)

OpenAI-compatible with streaming and function calling. Prepaid budgets — your key stops at the limit you set, never a surprise bill.

Claude Code & Anthropic SDK also compatible

Khidi also speaks the Anthropic Messages format — drive MiniMax M2.7 from Claude Code:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.khidi.ai"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="sk-…"
claude --model minimax-m2.7

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