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Model comparison

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.7

Rank #239 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 33.3.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
ProviderxAIMiniMax
Noometry Index33.738.3
Released2024-08-132026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3433

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding12871381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1387
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
WeirdML22.2%—
LiveBench Coding46.4%—
ALE-Bench—618.17

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning Too close to call

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts12721372
Epoch Capabilities Index130.48146.68
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench22.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
LiveBench Reasoning54.8%—
DTBench65.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math12831378
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202511.5%—
ProofBench—4%
LiveBench Math54.9%—
MATH Level 563.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert12541379
GPQA Diamond53.8%—
Confabulations20.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English12821338
LMArena Chinese12891393
LMArena French13181362
LMArena German12871362
LMArena Japanese12441171
LMArena Korean12371232
LMArena Russian12861358
LMArena Spanish12811354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following12701353
LiveBench Instruction Following69.6%—

Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query12761366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text13051359
LMArena Creative Writing12841331
LMArena Multi-Turn12901364
Short-Story Creative Writing63.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361
LiveBench Language45.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) 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.

How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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