While significant efforts have been made to harness the large capacity of sulfide-based cathodes, there has been limited focus on increasing their voltage. Here, by a novel iodide-assisted synthesis route, we successfully synthesized lithium metal thiophosphates Li 2 MP 2 S 6 (M = Mn, Fe, and Co), of which Li 2 MnP 2 S 6 is a new compound. Electrochemical extraction of Li from Li 2 FeP 2 S 6 and Li 2 MnP 2 S 6 was performed at ∼3 V, significantly higher than other sulfide-based cathodes. Despite the similar voltages, these two materials were found to operate by very different redox mechanisms. Density functional theory calculations and X-ray absorption spectroscopy show that while Li 2 FeP 2 S 6 exhibits mostly traditional cationic redox, Li 2 MnP 2 S 6 redox involves significant participation of anionic redox. Our analysis of Li 2 MnP 2 S 6 is also used to contextualize recent work on other Li-rich thiophosphate cathodes. This work introduces a new synthetic route to access sulfide-based materials and sheds insights into the high-voltage redox mechanism in thiophosphate-based cathodes.