sglang/docs_new/docs/basic_usage/minimax_m2.mdx

---
title: "MiniMax M2.1/M2 Usage"
metatags:
    description: "Deploy MiniMax M2.1/M2 with SGLang: 230B MoE model (10B active), up to 3M context, optimized for coding and agentic tasks, tool use support."
---
[MiniMax-M2.1](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1) and [MiniMax-M2](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2) are advanced large language models created by [MiniMax](https://www.minimax.io/).

MiniMax-M2 series redefines efficiency for agents. It's a compact, fast, and cost-effective MoE model (230 billion total parameters with 10 billion active parameters) built for elite performance in coding and agentic tasks, all while maintaining powerful general intelligence. With just 10 billion activated parameters, MiniMax-M2 provides the sophisticated, end-to-end tool use performance expected from today's leading models, but in a streamlined form factor that makes deployment and scaling easier than ever.

## Supported Models

This guide applies to the following models. You only need to update the model name during deployment. The following examples use **MiniMax-M2**:

- [MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1)
- [MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2)

## System Requirements

The following are recommended configurations; actual requirements should be adjusted based on your use case:

- 4x 96GB GPUs: Supported context length of up to 400K tokens.
- 8x 144GB GPUs: Supported context length of up to 3M tokens.

## Deployment with Python

4-GPU deployment command:

```bash Command
python -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2 \
    --tp-size 4 \
    --tool-call-parser minimax-m2 \
    --reasoning-parser minimax-append-think \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --port 8000 \
    --mem-fraction-static 0.85
```

8-GPU deployment command:

```bash Command
python -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2 \
    --tp-size 8 \
    --ep-size 8 \
    --tool-call-parser minimax-m2 \
    --reasoning-parser minimax-append-think \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --port 8000 \
    --mem-fraction-static 0.85
```

## Testing Deployment

After startup, you can test the SGLang OpenAI-compatible API with the following command:

```bash Command
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2",
        "messages": [
            {"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "You are a helpful assistant."}]},
            {"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Who won the world series in 2020?"}]}
        ]
    }'
```