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Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.3

Rank #281 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

39.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax M1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 34.8 to 8.6.
  • MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index30.339.7
Released2023-11-062025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K1M
Max output4K40K
Input $ / M tokens$10$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$30$2.20
Results tracked3618

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), MiniMax M1: 39.2 (#149)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Coding12681359
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), MiniMax M1: 25.8 (#125)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts12511340
SimpleBench25.1%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), MiniMax M1: 34.8 (#152)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Math12721360
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), MiniMax M1: 35.7 (#168)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Expert12231316
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), MiniMax M1: 46.0 (#157)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English12451320
LMArena Chinese12421361
LMArena French12751369
LMArena German12591350
LMArena Japanese11941220
LMArena Korean11871263
LMArena Russian12591330
LMArena Spanish12601354

Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), MiniMax M1: 69.5 (#169)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following12501312

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#136)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Longer Query12541326
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), MiniMax M1: 53.3 (#155)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboMiniMax M1
LMArena Text12721343
LMArena Creative Writing12691298
LMArena Multi-Turn12671335

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.2 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and MiniMax M1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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