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MiniMax closes M2.5 and M2.7 to new users on October 19, 2026 and retires them on November 18. Which model id to switch to, what it costs, and the exact API change.

Encrypted chain-of-thought from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google APIs can be replayed into weaker models and read verbatim. How the attack works and what leaked.

MiniMax M2.5 hits 80.2% on SWE-bench Verified and plugs into the Anthropic SDK with two environment variables. Here is what you need to know before switching.