Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Pro vs MiniMax-M2.5
Gemini 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 26.9.
- MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1381 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | 146.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | — |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Math | 71% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1378 |
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1379 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1393 |
| LMArena French | — | 1362 |
| LMArena German | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1353 |
Long Context MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1366 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1364 |
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than MiniMax-M2.5?
Gemini 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.