Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs MiniMax-01

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and MiniMax-01 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 88.8% for GPT-5.5 and 42.5% for MiniMax-01.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and MiniMax-01 specifications
GPT-5.5MiniMax-01
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index63.433.4
Released2026-04-23—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$30$1.10
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), MiniMax-01: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), MiniMax-01: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), MiniMax-01: 22.4

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%42.5%
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), MiniMax-01: —

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), MiniMax-01: 33.6

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Confabulations—23.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), MiniMax-01: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), MiniMax-01: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1533—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1480—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1460—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), MiniMax-01: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), MiniMax-01: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), MiniMax-01: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than MiniMax-01?

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and MiniMax-01 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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