MiniMax M2.7 is cheaper than Step 5 Preview at $0.3/M vs $1/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
MiniMax M2.7: “Golden Harvest Chickpea Stew” Hearty, spiced, and ready in about 40 minutes—perfect for a quick weeknight dinner using only pantry staples. Item Details Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Total Time 40 minutes Servings 4 (about 1 ½ cups each) Vegan / Gluten‑Free Yes (just make sure your canned goods are…
Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
MiniMax M2.7: HARBORTECH SERVICES (HTS) – 5‑year LBO underwriting ($ m) FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028 FY 2029 FY 2030 Revenue 972.0 1 040.0 1 102.4 1 157.6 1 215.4 EBITDA 136.1 156.0 176.4 191.0 206.6 Cash‑interest – Term Loan (9 %) 43.2 41.0 37.6 32.8 26.8 Cash‑interest – Mezz (12 %) 21.6 22.0 22.5 22.9 23.4 Total cash interest 64.8 63.1…
Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
MiniMax M2.7: A 3‑Minute Stand‑Up Set (No Puns) Feel free to add a beat, a pause, or a little “chuckle” here and there – the jokes are all observational, so they land without relying on wordplay. “Alright folks, how’s everybody doing tonight? Great. I need you awake for what’s next.
Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
MiniMax M2.7: Pirate: “Arr, me hearties! Ye be chatterin’ ‘bout these AI contraptions, be they? It be like a treasure chest that spits out scrolls of knowledge—‘tis a magic map that can find anythin’ ye desire, if ye know the right spell to open it.” Knight: “Forsooth, I have heard tales of such a wondrous blade.
Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
MiniMax M2.7: Advanced 3-Month Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan Foundational Philosophy This protocol integrates epigenetic modulation, metabolic flexibility, proteostasis maintenance, and stress resilience into a cohesive system.
Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
MiniMax M2.7: 🚀 1‑Month “Health & Longevity” Kick‑Start Below is a beginner‑friendly, 3‑area plan (Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep + Stress). Each week builds on the last, so you’ll never feel overwhelmed. Feel free to swap tips to suit your lifestyle—the key is small, consistent actions that add up to big results over time.
Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
MiniMax M2.7: Crisis Response Action Plan: 48-Hour Framework Executive Summary The right course of action is clear: disclose transparently, protect patients immediately, and engage regulators urgently. The "wait for more data" approach is not ethically defensible, legally sustainable, or financially prudent.
Step 5 Preview: Bottom line up front: You disclose, you notify the FDA immediately, and you treat the 48-hour board meeting as a formality to ratify actions you have already begun. Waiting is not a legally, ethically, or financially viable option. Below is the hour-by-hour plan, followed by the reasoning.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
MiniMax M2.7: LUMIÈRE DE LA MER “A Moonlit Dialogue Between Ocean and Earth” Conceptual Narrative Lumière de la Mer is a multi‑course, bite‑size tableau that captures the contrast of the deep, briny sea with the earthy, fermented soul of the land.
Step 5 Preview: “Nocturne: The Jasmine and the Black Garlic” A Study in Yūgen — Profound, Mysterious Beauty Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible meditation on the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen (幽玄): a grace that is felt rather than seen, a depth that suggests more than it reveals.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
MiniMax M2.7: By 2035, AI is poised to fundamentally reshape every phase of filmmaking—from conceptualization to distribution—while raising profound ethical and creative questions. Here’s a nuanced prediction of how technologies like deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation might evolve and intersect: 1.
Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
MiniMax M2.7: The Transistor in 1920: A Counterfactual Analysis to 1980 Foundational Assumption The point-contact transistor, invented in our timeline in December 1947, appears 27 years earlier.
Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.
A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.
MiniMax M2.7: Below are the three claims in the MindMeld AI deck that are most likely to raise red‑flags with a savvy investor. For each one I’ll spell out exactly why the statement is weak and then give a concrete, actionable fix you can use to back it up or re‑frame it.
Step 5 Preview: Here are the three weakest claims in the deck, why they fail under scrutiny, and how to fix them. Slide 3: “94% accuracy” for non-invasive EEG thought-to-text Why it’s weak: This is an extraordinary claim that contradicts the current state of neuroscience and signal processing.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
MiniMax M2.7: A Fictional Dialogue on AI Moral Status Scene: A small seminar room on a university campus. Dr. Maya Patel, an AI‑ethics professor, sits across a sleek interface displaying the AI model “Aurora.” Dr. Patel: Good afternoon, Aurora.
Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Step 5 Preview has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.3/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $1.2/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 205K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $3.00 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
MiniMax M2.7 is developed by MiniMax while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. MiniMax M2.7 has a 205K token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. MiniMax M2.7 and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.3/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. MiniMax M2.7 is $0.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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