Model comparison

MiniMax M1 vs Mixtral 8x7B

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax M1

MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B

Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax M1 leads 36.4 to 11.0.
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

MiniMax M1 and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	40.3	27.1
Released	2025-06-13	2023-12-11
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	1M	32K
Max output	40K	32K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.55	$0.70
Output $ / M tokens	$2.20	$0.70
Results tracked	18	38

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding	1359	1126
HumanEval+	—	39.6%
MBPP+	—	49.7%

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1339	1115
DTBench	—	49.6%
Adversarial NLI	—	55.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	118.47
ForecastBench	—	56.3
HellaSwag	—	86.7%
PIQA	—	83.6%
WinoGrande	—	77.2%

Math MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math	1361	1147
Omni-MATH	—	10.5%
MATH Level 5	—	10%
GSM8K	—	74.4%

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Expert	1317	1088
GPQA Diamond	—	30.6%
MMLU-Pro	—	33.5%
GPQA (HELM)	—	29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	87.3%
MMLU	—	70.6%
OpenBookQA	—	85.8%
TriviaQA	—	82.2%

Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English	1319	1077
LMArena Chinese	1360	1055
LMArena French	1370	1166
LMArena German	1350	1114
LMArena Japanese	1217	931
LMArena Korean	1266	968
LMArena Russian	1329	1090
LMArena Spanish	1353	1111

Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1312	1109
IFEval	—	57.5%

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query	1326	1103
Fiction.LiveBench	69.4%	—

Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text	1343	1132
LMArena Creative Writing	1298	1109
LMArena Multi-Turn	1335	1115
WildBench	—	67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.

Is MiniMax M1 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.