Noometry

Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.5 vs MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax-M2.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 41.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 16.8% for MiniMax-M2.5 and 24.7% for MiniMax-M2.7.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
Noometry Index38.337.7
Released2026-02-122026-03-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K205K
Max output131K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$1.20
Results tracked3330

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena WebDev13871398
LMArena Coding13811454
ALE-Bench618.17599.25
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.3%—
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—37%

Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench42.7%45.1%
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%
Vending-Bench 2-23.16—

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
NYT Connections (extended)16.8%24.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721422
Epoch Capabilities Index146.68145.85
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.2%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt—0.6%
Thematic Generalization—39.3%

Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
ProofBench4%3%
LMArena Math13781420

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.1%12.9%
LMArena Expert13791444

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English13381382
LMArena Chinese13931441
LMArena French13621421
LMArena German13621398
LMArena Japanese11711262
LMArena Korean12321313
LMArena Russian13581383
LMArena Spanish13541403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following13531405

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query13661419
CL-bench11.4%—
CL-bench Life6.3%—

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.5MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text13591405
LMArena Creative Writing13311354
LMArena Multi-Turn13641412
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1361—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.5 better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2.5 or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.5 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is MiniMax-M2.5 or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 205K tokens.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.5 and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.5 has 33 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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