Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax M1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiniMax M1 leads 26.9 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 44.4% for GPT-4.1 mini and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
  • GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index33.640.3
Released2025-04-142025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output33K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.55
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$2.20
Results tracked4718

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Coding13671359
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts13491339
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Math13431361
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Expert13381317
GPQA Diamond65.8%—
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English13181319
LMArena Chinese13291360
LMArena French13581370
LMArena German13511350
LMArena Japanese12901217
LMArena Korean12981266
LMArena Russian13241329
LMArena Spanish13191353

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following13331312
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%69.4%
LMArena Longer Query13441326

Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMiniMax M1
LMArena Text13401343
LMArena Creative Writing13001298
LMArena Multi-Turn13541335
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or MiniMax M1?

GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and MiniMax M1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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