Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs MiniMax-M2.5
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.5 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 53.9 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1381 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1372 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 146.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1378 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1379 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1393 |
| LMArena French | — | 1362 |
| LMArena German | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1353 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1366 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than MiniMax-M2.5?
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.