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Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Terra vs MiniMax-01

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI

59.2

Rank #17 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Terra 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-5.6 Terra leads 60.7 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 51.3% for GPT-5.6 Terra and 42.5% for MiniMax-01.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for GPT-5.6 Terra.
  • GPT-5.6 Terra accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
ProviderOpenAIMiniMax
Noometry Index59.233.4
Released2026-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$12$1.10
Results tracked522

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.7 (#19), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
DeepSWE69.6%—
FrontierCode41.3%—
CursorBench41.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode55%—
WeirdML78.3%—
LMArena Coding1484—
ALE-Bench1,951—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.1 (#25), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
APEX-Agents58.2%—
BALROG53.2%—
GDP.pdf24.7%—
Vending-Bench 27,343—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Terra leads

GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.7 (#21), MiniMax-01: 22.4

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
Kagi LLM Benchmark51.3%42.5%
ARC-AGI-283.9%—
SimpleBench48.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)78.4%—
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1468—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench93.3%—
LMCA55%—
Surface Evolver Bench83.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.62—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.6 (#12), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)86%—
FrontierMath Tier 470.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.7%—
ProofBench74%—
LMArena Math1466—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Terra leads

GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.2 (#30), MiniMax-01: 33.6

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
SimpleQA Verified43.2%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1492—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.3 (#11), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1271—
Blueprint-Bench 230.8%—
Furniture Assembly54.2%—
LMArena Document1472—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.4 (#44), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1513—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1460—
LMArena Japanese1457—
LMArena Korean1425—
LMArena Russian1450—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.4 (#40), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1454—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#68), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1451—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.2 (#23), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraMiniMax-01
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1410—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1855—
EQ-Bench 41234—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than MiniMax-01?

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Terra or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Terra lists at $2 and $12.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Terra does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Terra and MiniMax-01 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Terra has 52 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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