MiniMax 2.5 now available as open weight model option

A new open weight model is now available with experimental support in the Kiro IDE and CLI. Available on Free, Pro, Pro+, and Power tiers with all authentication methods. Supported in us-east-1 (N. Virginia). Restart your IDE or CLI to access it from the model selector.

MiniMax 2.5 matches frontier-class coding performance at a fraction of the cost. Trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of real-world environments, it delivers strong results across the full development lifecycle from system design to code review and completes complex agentic tasks significantly faster than its predecessor. 200K context window with a 0.25x credit multiplier.