Model comparison

MiniMax M1 vs Mistral 7B

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax M1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax M1

MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Mistral 7B

Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 37.5 to 8.1.
Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

MiniMax M1 and Mistral 7B specifications
	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	40.3	23.0
Released	2025-06-13	2023-09-27
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	1M	8K
Max output	40K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.55	$0.25
Output $ / M tokens	$2.20	$0.25
Results tracked	18	37

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding	1359	1082
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	27.3%
HumanEval+	—	36%
MBPP+	—	42.1%

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1339	1067
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
DTBench	—	42.5%
Adversarial NLI	—	47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	112.21
HellaSwag	—	81%
PIQA	—	83%
WinoGrande	—	75.3%

Math MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Math	1361	1085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	0.3%
MATH Level 5	—	3.7%
GSM8K	—	54.4%

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Expert	1317	1036
GPQA Diamond	—	15.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	78.6%
BoolQ	—	87.4%
MMLU	—	62.5%
OpenBookQA	—	79.8%
TriviaQA	—	75.2%

Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English	1319	1012
LMArena Chinese	1360	1009
LMArena French	1370	1037
LMArena German	1350	987
LMArena Japanese	1217	878
LMArena Russian	1329	1018
LMArena Spanish	1353	1026
LMArena Korean	1266	—

Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1312	1060

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query	1326	1060
Fiction.LiveBench	69.4%	—

Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral 7B
LMArena Text	1343	1090
LMArena Creative Writing	1298	1068
LMArena Multi-Turn	1335	1062

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M1 better than Mistral 7B?

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.

Is MiniMax M1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Mistral 7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.