Model comparison
Command A vs MiniMax-M2
Command A and MiniMax-M2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2 leads 39.3 to 27.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 57.8% for MiniMax-M2.
- MiniMax-M2 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 205K.
Side by side
| Command A | MiniMax-M2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.4 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-10-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 205K |
| Max output | 8K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2 leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1370 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 61% |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1297 |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 30% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 160.6 |
Reasoning MiniMax-M2 leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 57.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1357 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 14.8% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math MiniMax-M2 leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1352 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Command A: 37.1 (#159), MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1337 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Command A: 45.3 (#170), MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1366 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1335 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1326 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2 leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1328 |
Long Context Too close to call
Command A: 40.6 (#151), MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1331 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2 leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Command A | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1361 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than MiniMax-M2?
Command A and MiniMax-M2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Command A or MiniMax-M2?
MiniMax-M2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.3 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 205K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and MiniMax-M2 share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.