Model comparison
Grok 4 Fast vs MiniMax M1
Grok 4 Fast and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 5 categories and MiniMax M1 in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 41.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 94.4% for Grok 4 Fast and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2025-09-19 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax M1 leads
Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1429 | 1359 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1159 | — |
| WeirdML | 42.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | 15.7% | — |
| Cybench | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1171 | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1412 | 1339 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 66.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 48.5% | — |
| DTBench | 82.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.5 | — |
Math Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1419 | 1361 |
Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads
Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1411 | 1317 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 19.7% | — |
Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1396 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1457 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1431 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1383 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1352 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1357 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1389 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1415 | 1353 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1312 |
Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1326 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1407 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | 1335 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 Fast better than MiniMax M1?
Grok 4 Fast and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 4 Fast or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and MiniMax M1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.