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Model comparison

MiniMax M1 vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.5 costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax M1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 37.5 to 26.9.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
  • MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

MiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
Noometry Index40.338.3
Released2025-06-132026-02-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M205K
Max output40K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.55$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$1.20
Results tracked1833

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding13591381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1387
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
ALE-Bench—618.17

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiniMax M1: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts13391372
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.68

Math MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math13611378
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert13171379
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English13191338
LMArena Chinese13601393
LMArena French13701362
LMArena German13501362
LMArena Japanese12171171
LMArena Korean12661232
LMArena Russian13291358
LMArena Spanish13531354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13121353

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query13261366
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text13431359
LMArena Creative Writing12981331
LMArena Multi-Turn13351364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M1 better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.5 costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax M1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.

Is MiniMax M1 or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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