Model comparison

GPT-4.5 vs MiniMax-M2.7

GPT-4.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.9 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

36.9

Rank #200 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.4

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-4.5 leads 31.0 to 24.9.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 specifications
GPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index36.937.4
Released2025-02-272026-03-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4230

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4.5: 41.8 (#102), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.4 (#115)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
WeirdML39.4%37%
LMArena Coding13971454
Aider Polyglot44.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1397
SciCode—47%
LiveBench Coding75.2%—
ALE-Bench—599.25

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 27.6 (#92), MiniMax-M2.7: 24.9 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
Cybench17.5%—
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

GPT-4.5: 14.1 (#320), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.0 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Hard Prompts14041422
Epoch Capabilities Index136.74145.84
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench34.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
ARC-AGI-110.3%—
CritPt—0.6%
EnigmaEval3.2%—
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
LiveBench Reasoning71.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis64.3%—
ForecastBench61.7—
LiveBench69%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 31.0 (#200), MiniMax-M2.7: 24.9 (#254)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Math14121420
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
ProofBench—3%
LiveBench Math69.3%—
MATH Level 578.6%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.7 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.4 (#205), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.1 (#151)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Expert13941443
GPQA Diamond68.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
Confabulations13.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 37.0 (#68), MiniMax-M2.7: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Vision1195—
VPCT45%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 52.7 (#78), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.5 (#120)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English14131382
LMArena Chinese14211439
LMArena French14171422
LMArena German14571398
LMArena Japanese14161261
LMArena Korean13921313
LMArena Russian14191383
LMArena Spanish—1403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

GPT-4.5: 72.8 (#129), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.2 (#101)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following14041404
LiveBench Instruction Following72.3%—

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#150), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#94)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query14061419
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

GPT-4.5: 57.1 (#129), MiniMax-M2.7: 59.1 (#107)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text14171404
LMArena Creative Writing13941354
LMArena Multi-Turn14441413
Short-Story Creative Writing75.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1258—
LiveBench Language61.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.5 better than MiniMax-M2.7?

GPT-4.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.9 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4.5 or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (41.8 vs 41.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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