MiniMax M2 · Ollama Blog

MiniMax M2 is now available on Ollama’s cloud. It’s a model built for coding and agentic workflows.

Get Started

ollama run minimax-m2:cloud

Highlights

Superior Intelligence. According to benchmarks from Artificial Analysis, MiniMax-M2 demonstrates highly competitive general intelligence across mathematics, science, instruction following, coding, and agentic tool use. Its composite score ranks #1 among open-source models globally.

Advanced Coding. Engineered for end-to-end developer workflows, MiniMax-M2 excels at multi-file edits, coding-run-fix loops, and test-validated repairs. Strong performance on Terminal-Bench and (Multi-)SWE-Bench–style tasks demonstrates practical effectiveness in terminals, IDEs, and CI across languages.

Agent Performance. MiniMax-M2 plans and executes complex, long-horizon toolchains across shell, browser, retrieval, and code runners. In BrowseComp-style evaluations, it consistently locates hard-to-surface sources, maintains traceable evidence, and gracefully recovers from flaky steps.

Efficient Design. With 10 billion activated parameters (230 billion in total), MiniMax-M2 delivers lower latency, lower cost, and higher throughput for interactive agents and batched sampling—perfectly aligned with the shift toward highly deployable models that still shine on coding and agentic tasks.

Benchmarks

MiniMax M2 comparison with several other mainstream models

MiniMax M2 model benchmark

Artificial Analysis intelligence index

Minimax artificial analysis

Usage with VS Code

First, pull the coding models so they can be accessed via VS Code:

ollama pull minimax-m2:cloud

Open the copilot chat sidebar
Select the model dropdown → Manage models
Click on Ollama under Provider Dropdown, then select desired models
Select the model dropdown → and choose the model (e.g. minimax-m2:cloud)

Usage with Zed

First pull the coding models so they can be accessed via Zed:

ollama pull minimax-m2:cloud

Then, open Zed (now available for Windows!)

Click on the agent panel button (glittering stars)
Click on the model dropdown → Configure
Select LLM providers → Ollama
Confirm the Host URL is http://localhost:11434, then click Connect
Select a model under Ollama

Usage with Droid

First, install Droid:

curl -fsSL https://app.factory.ai/cli | sh

Add the following configuration to ~/.factory/config.json:

{
  "custom_models": [
    {
      "model_display_name": "MiniMax-M2",
      "model": "minimax-m2:cloud",
      "base_url": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
      "api_key": "not-needed",
      "provider": "generic-chat-completion-api",
      "max_tokens": 16384
    }
  ]
}

Then run Droid and type /model to change to the model:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ > MiniMax-M2 [current]                              │
│   Qwen3-Coder-480B                               │
│                                                  │
│ ↑/↓ to navigate, Enter to select, ESC to go back │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Integrations

Ollama’s documentation now includes sections on using Ollama with popular coding tools:

Cloud API access

Cloud models such as minimax-m2:cloud can also be accessed directly via ollama.com’s cloud API:

First, create an API key, and set it in your environment

export OLLAMA_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Then, call ollama.com’s API

curl https://ollama.com/api/chat \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
    "model": "minimax-m2",
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Write a snake game in HTML."
    }]
}'

For more information see the Ollama’s API documentation.

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