Model comparison
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs MiniMax-M2.5
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 31.7.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2024-09-06 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | 1381 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | 17.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1289 | 1372 |
| 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 DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1288 | 1378 |
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1266 | 1379 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1318 | 1393 |
| LMArena French | 1289 | 1362 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1228 | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | 1209 | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | 1289 | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1248 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1280 | 1353 |
Long Context DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1301 | 1366 |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1294 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than MiniMax-M2.5?
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.