Model comparison
GLM-4.5-Air vs MiniMax-M2.5
GLM-4.5-Air and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air scores higher in 5 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 33.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 43% for GLM-4.5-Air and 55.2% for MiniMax-M2.5.
- GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.5.
- MiniMax-M2.5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-07-20 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 205K |
| Max output | 98K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.20 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.10 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1397 | 1381 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| GSO | 2.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GLM-4.5-Air: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43% | 55.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1379 | 1372 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.68 |
| ForecastBench | 59.2 | — |
Math GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 1378 |
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| Omni-MATH | 39.1% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1370 | 1379 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 76.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 59.4% | — |
Multilingual GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1366 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1426 | 1393 |
| LMArena French | 1399 | 1362 |
| LMArena German | 1377 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1348 | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1354 | 1353 |
| IFEval | 81.2% | — |
Long Context GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1366 | 1366 |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1384 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1343 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
| WildBench | 78.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-4.5-Air better than MiniMax-M2.5?
GLM-4.5-Air and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5-Air or MiniMax-M2.5?
GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.5 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.
Is GLM-4.5-Air or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiniMax-M2.5 does, with 205K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.