Noometry

Model comparison

MiMo-V2-Flash vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiMo-V2-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2-Flash Xiaomi

41.3

Rank #138 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2-Flash scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 36.1.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.5.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

MiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderXiaomiMiniMax
Noometry Index41.338.3
Released2025-12-162026-02-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.14$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$0.28$1.20
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 36.1 (#211), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena WebDev13301387
LMArena Coding14431381
ALE-Bench737.95618.17
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
SciCode25.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2-Flash: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 24.9 (#157), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts14201372
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
CritPt0%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.68

Math MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 38.3 (#139), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math13961378
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Flash: 39.7 (#131), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert14251379
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multilingual MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 51.0 (#113), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English13921338
LMArena Chinese14621393
LMArena French14291362
LMArena German13951362
LMArena Japanese13251171
LMArena Korean13581232
LMArena Russian13871358
LMArena Spanish14201354

Instruction Following MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 73.5 (#120), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13921353

Long Context MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 43.0 (#110), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query14091366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 59.7 (#106), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text14111359
LMArena Creative Writing13751331
LMArena Multi-Turn14041364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2-Flash better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiMo-V2-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2-Flash or MiniMax-M2.5?

MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.5 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is MiMo-V2-Flash or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 36.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2-Flash does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2-Flash and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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