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Model comparison

MiniMax M1 vs o1

MiniMax M1 and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 1 category and o1 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 41.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 69.4% for MiniMax M1 and 83.3% for o1.
  • MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiniMax M1o1
ProviderMiniMaxOpenAI
Noometry Index40.340.9
Released2025-06-132024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M200K
Max output40K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.55$15
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$60
Results tracked1852

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), o1: 46.1 (#70)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Coding13591367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiniMax M1: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), o1: 27.9 (#111)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Hard Prompts13391371
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), o1: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Math13611388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), o1: 41.5 (#110)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Expert13171361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

MiniMax M1: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), o1: 48.6 (#142)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Non-English13191358
LMArena Chinese13601394
LMArena French13701344
LMArena German13501337
LMArena Japanese12171346
LMArena Korean12661396
LMArena Russian13291356
LMArena Spanish13531345

Instruction Following o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), o1: 74.8 (#86)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Instruction Following13121367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), o1: 50.3 (#9)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query13261378

Writing & Preference o1 leads

MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), o1: 55.6 (#144)

BenchmarkMiniMax M1o1
LMArena Text13431366
LMArena Creative Writing12981348
LMArena Multi-Turn13351369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M1 better than o1?

MiniMax M1 and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or o1?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is MiniMax M1 or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and o1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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