Model comparison

GPT-6.1 Sol vs MiniMax-01

GPT-6.1 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#6); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

65.6

Rank #6 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6.1 Sol leads 81.9 to 22.4.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-6.1 Sol and MiniMax-01 specifications
GPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index65.633.4
Released2026-09-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.10
Results tracked342

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 63.2 (#8), MiniMax-01: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
DeepSWE75.2%—
FrontierCode50.2%—
LMArena WebDev1755—
SciCode55.8%—
LMArena Coding1487—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 39.6 (#26), MiniMax-01: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
APEX-Agents60%—
GDP.pdf32%—

Reasoning GPT-6.1 Sol leads

GPT-6.1 Sol: 81.9 (#2), MiniMax-01: 22.4

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
ARC-AGI-294.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)95.5%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
EBR-Bench54.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1466—
Mystery Game Puzzles80%—
Epoch Capabilities Index166.09—

Math Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 93.7 (#1), MiniMax-01: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)93.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4100%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1464—

Knowledge GPT-6.1 Sol leads

GPT-6.1 Sol: 71.8 (#4), MiniMax-01: 33.6

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.9%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1502—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 52.7 (#5), MiniMax-01: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1288—
Furniture Assembly80%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 54.3 (#46), MiniMax-01: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1438—
LMArena Chinese1477—
LMArena Russian1455—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 77.0 (#29), MiniMax-01: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1468—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 44.9 (#54), MiniMax-01: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1465—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-6.1 Sol: 63.6 (#63), MiniMax-01: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6.1 SolMiniMax-01
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1432—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6.1 Sol better than MiniMax-01?

GPT-6.1 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#6); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6.1 Sol or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; GPT-6.1 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6.1 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6.1 Sol and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6.1 Sol has 34 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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