MiniMax M2 vs Amazon Nova Pro
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
MiniMax · Oct 2025
A 10B-active MoE tuned purely for agents and code — striking capability-per-active-parameter at rock-bottom prices.
Amazon · Dec 2024
AWS's house multimodal model — chosen for Bedrock-native integration and AWS billing more than for benchmark wins.
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. MiniMax M2 is about 2.7x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| MiniMax M2 | Amazon Nova Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | 68.9 | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.3 | $0.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $1.2 | $3.2 |
| Context window | 205K | 300K |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Open weights | yes (MIT) | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text | text, image, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2025 | Oct 2024 |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Dec 2024 |
| Example monthly cost* | $4.80 | $12.80 |
* 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, MiniMax M2 or Amazon Nova Pro?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. MiniMax M2 is about 2.7x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, MiniMax M2 or Amazon Nova Pro?
- MiniMax M2 costs $0.3/$1.2 per million input/output tokens, while Amazon Nova Pro costs $0.8/$3.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $4.80 versus $12.80.
- Which model is better for coding, MiniMax M2 or Amazon Nova Pro?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.