Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.5 vs Mistral 7B

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Mistral 7B

Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 39.2 to 7.4.
Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.5.
MiniMax-M2.5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.5 and Mistral 7B specifications
	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	38.3	23.0
Released	2026-02-12	2023-09-27
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	205K	8K
Max output	131K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$0.25
Output $ / M tokens	$1.20	$0.25
Results tracked	33	37

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding	1381	1082
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	75.8%	—
LMArena WebDev	1387	—
SWE-bench Multilingual	68.3%	—
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	27.3%
ALE-Bench	618.17	—
HumanEval+	—	36%
MBPP+	—	42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
Terminal-Bench	42.7%	—
Vending-Bench 2	-23.16	—

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1372	1067
Epoch Capabilities Index	146.68	112.21
ARC-AGI-2	4.9%	—
Kagi LLM Benchmark	55.2%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	16.8%	—
ARC-AGI-1	63.7%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
DTBench	—	42.5%
Adversarial NLI	—	47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	56.1%
HellaSwag	—	81%
PIQA	—	83%
WinoGrande	—	75.3%

Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Math	1378	1085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	0.3%
ProofBench	4%	—
MATH Level 5	—	3.7%
GSM8K	—	54.4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Expert	1379	1036
GPQA Diamond	—	15.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.1%	—
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	78.6%
BoolQ	—	87.4%
MMLU	—	62.5%
OpenBookQA	—	79.8%
TriviaQA	—	75.2%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English	1338	1012
LMArena Chinese	1393	1009
LMArena French	1362	1037
LMArena German	1362	987
LMArena Japanese	1171	878
LMArena Russian	1358	1018
LMArena Spanish	1354	1026
LMArena Korean	1232	—

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1353	1060

Long Context MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query	1366	1060
CL-bench	11.4%	—
CL-bench Life	6.3%	—

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral 7B
LMArena Text	1359	1090
LMArena Creative Writing	1331	1068
LMArena Multi-Turn	1364	1062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1361	—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.5 better than Mistral 7B?

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2.5 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.5 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is MiniMax-M2.5 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.5 does, with 205K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.5 and Mistral 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.5 has 33 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.