Model comparison
Mercury vs MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.1 in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 58.5 to 46.2.
- MiniMax-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 38.4 |
| Released | — | 2025-12-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Mercury: 38.1 (#164), MiniMax-M2.1: 40.1 (#132)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | 1421 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1384 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 623.83 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.1: 27.7 (#91)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 36.6% |
Reasoning Mercury leads
Mercury: 16.8 (#288), MiniMax-M2.1: 15.8 (#301)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1410 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 11.2% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.1: 35.6 (#142)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1396 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.1: 37.7 (#143)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 11.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1432 |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Mercury: 41.7 (#201), MiniMax-M2.1: 50.2 (#123)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1430 |
| LMArena French | — | 1405 |
| LMArena German | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1386 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1396 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Mercury: 65.3 (#220), MiniMax-M2.1: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | 1399 |
Long Context MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Mercury: 38.3 (#193), MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#98)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | 1416 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#216), MiniMax-M2.1: 58.5 (#114)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1392 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1362 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | 1396 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than MiniMax-M2.1?
MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or MiniMax-M2.1 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and MiniMax-M2.1 share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.