Model comparison
Mercury vs MiniMax-M2
Mercury and MiniMax-M2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M2 in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2 leads 53.0 to 46.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 57.8% for MiniMax-M2.
- MiniMax-M2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | MiniMax-M2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 37.4 |
| Released | — | 2025-10-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1370 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 61% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1297 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 30% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 160.6 |
Reasoning MiniMax-M2 leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 57.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1357 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 14.8% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1352 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1337 |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2 leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1366 |
| LMArena French | — | 1335 |
| LMArena German | — | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1326 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2 leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1328 |
Long Context MiniMax-M2 leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1331 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2 leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1361 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than MiniMax-M2?
Mercury and MiniMax-M2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mercury or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (38.7 vs 39.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and MiniMax-M2 share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.