Command A vs MiniMax M2
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Command A
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
MiniMax M2
68.9MiniMax · Oct 2025
A 10B-active MoE tuned purely for agents and code — striking capability-per-active-parameter at rock-bottom prices.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 8.3x cheaper per blended million tokens. Command A also takes 262K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2.
Specs & pricing
| Command A | MiniMax M2 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 68.9 |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.3 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $1.2 |
| Context window | 262K | 205K |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | yes (MIT) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $4.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Command A or MiniMax M2?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 8.3x cheaper per blended million tokens. Command A also takes 262K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2.
- Which is cheaper, Command A or MiniMax M2?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while MiniMax M2 costs $0.3/$1.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $4.80.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or MiniMax M2?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.