Noometry

Model comparison

Command R+ vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command R+ Cohere

32.4

Rank #257 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 29.1.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Command R+MiniMax-M2.5
ProviderCohereMiniMax
Noometry Index32.438.3
Released2024-08-302026-02-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K205K
Max output4K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Results tracked3433

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 29.1 (#309), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding11871381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1387
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct33.8%—
LiveBench Coding19.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete41.9%—
ALE-Bench—618.17
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+63.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command R+: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 9.2 (#344), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts11861372
Epoch Capabilities Index119.34146.68
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench17.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
LiveBench Reasoning24.8%—
DTBench54.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis38.1%—
LMCA5%—
LiveBench31.8%—

Math Command R+ leads

Command R+: 28.9 (#242), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math11881378
ProofBench—4%
LiveBench Math21.3%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 36.4 (#169), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.9%9.1%
LMArena Expert11741379
MMLU69.4%—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 38.6 (#227), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English12161338
LMArena Chinese12261393
LMArena French12091362
LMArena German12161362
LMArena Japanese11661171
LMArena Korean11381232
LMArena Russian12271358
LMArena Spanish11891354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 60.0 (#254), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following11971353
LiveBench Instruction Following57.6%—

Long Context Too close to call

Command R+: 37.3 (#219), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query12301366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Command R+: 43.5 (#228), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkCommand R+MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text12291359
LMArena Creative Writing12351331
LMArena Multi-Turn12131364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361
LiveBench Language29.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command R+ better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command R+ 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; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command R+ or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.5 does, with 205K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command R+ and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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