Model comparison

Mercury vs MiniMax-M2.7

Mercury and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 58.9 to 46.2.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury and MiniMax-M2.7 specifications
MercuryMiniMax-M2.7
ProviderInceptionMiniMax
Noometry Index37.637.7
Released—2026-03-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked930

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 38.7 (#170), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Coding13221454
LMArena WebDev—1398
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—37%
ALE-Bench—599.25

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 17.5 (#293), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Hard Prompts12851422
Kagi LLM Benchmark21.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.85

Math Not comparable

Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
ProofBench—3%
LMArena Math—1420

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%
LMArena Expert—1444

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 41.6 (#206), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English12601382
LMArena Chinese—1441
LMArena French—1421
LMArena German—1398
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1313
LMArena Russian—1383
LMArena Spanish—1403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 65.2 (#224), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following12391405

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 38.4 (#198), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query12661419

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Mercury: 46.2 (#221), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text12821405
LMArena Creative Writing11911354
LMArena Multi-Turn12821412

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury better than MiniMax-M2.7?

Mercury and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Mercury or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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