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Model comparison

Grok 4 vs MiniMax-M2

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2 MiniMax

37.4

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 40.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 73.6% for Grok 4 and 57.8% for MiniMax-M2.
  • MiniMax-M2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4MiniMax-M2
ProviderxAIMiniMax
Noometry Index48.137.4
Released2025-07-092025-10-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4821

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Coding14081370
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—61%
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1297
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
Terminal-Bench27.2%30%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—
Vending-Bench 2—160.6

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%57.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091357
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—14.8%
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Math14221352
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Expert14151337
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), MiniMax-M2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Non-English14031313
LMArena Chinese14271366
LMArena French14181335
LMArena German14291355
LMArena Russian14101331
LMArena Spanish14201326
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Instruction Following13871328
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Longer Query14091331
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax-M2
LMArena Text14111340
LMArena Creative Writing13971286
LMArena Multi-Turn14161361
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than MiniMax-M2?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 39.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and MiniMax-M2 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.

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