Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs MiniMax M1

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and MiniMax M1 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 41.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 94.4% for Grok 4 and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4MiniMax M1
ProviderxAIMiniMax
Noometry Index48.140.3
Released2025-07-092025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.55
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked4818

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Coding14081359
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts14091339
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Math14221361
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Expert14151317
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English14031319
LMArena Chinese14271360
LMArena French14181370
LMArena German14291350
LMArena Japanese13941217
LMArena Korean13771266
LMArena Russian14101329
LMArena Spanish14201353

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following13871312
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%69.4%
LMArena Longer Query14091326

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGrok 4MiniMax M1
LMArena Text14111343
LMArena Creative Writing13971298
LMArena Multi-Turn14161335
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than MiniMax M1?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and MiniMax M1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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