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Magistral Medium vs MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 58.9 to 46.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 39.2% for Magistral Medium and 47% for MiniMax-M2.7.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

Magistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
ProviderMistral AIMiniMax
Noometry Index35.237.7
Released2025-03-172026-03-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K205K
Max output16K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$5$1.20
Results tracked2230

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
SciCode39.2%47%
LMArena Coding13191454
LMArena WebDev—1398
WeirdML—37%
ALE-Bench—599.25

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Magistral Medium: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
CritPt0.3%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671422
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark16.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
ARC-AGI-16.1%—
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.85

Math Magistral Medium leads

Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Math12501420
ProofBench—3%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Expert12231444
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English12321382
LMArena Chinese12271441
LMArena French12671421
LMArena German12481398
LMArena Japanese11751262
LMArena Korean11251313
LMArena Russian12241383
LMArena Spanish12711403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following12541405

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query12951419

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text12551405
LMArena Creative Writing12451354
LMArena Multi-Turn12751412

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Medium better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Magistral Medium or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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