Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.5 vs Mistral Medium

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 21 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Mistral Medium

Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 39.2 to 25.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 9.1% for MiniMax-M2.5 and 22.7% for Mistral Medium.
MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.5 and Mistral Medium specifications
	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	38.3	36.3
Released	2026-02-12	2023-12-11
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	205K	262K
Max output	131K	262K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$1.20	$7.50
Results tracked	33	36

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Coding	1381	1434
ALE-Bench	618.17	763.98
FrontierCode	—	8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	75.8%	—
LMArena WebDev	1387	—
SWE-bench Multilingual	68.3%	—
SciCode	—	40.2%
WeirdML	—	43.7%

Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
Terminal-Bench	42.7%	—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	37.7%
Vending-Bench 2	-23.16	—

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark	55.2%	50%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1372	1426
ARC-AGI-2	4.9%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	16.8%	—
ARC-AGI-1	63.7%	—
CritPt	—	0%
DTBench	—	75.5%
LMCA	—	26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench	—	26.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index	146.68	—

Math Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
ProofBench	4%	9%
LMArena Math	1378	1408
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	32.2%
MATH Level 5	—	81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0.3%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.1%	22.7%
LMArena Expert	1379	1408
GPQA Diamond	—	59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	4.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.5: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision	—	1172

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English	1338	1408
LMArena Chinese	1393	1447
LMArena French	1362	1459
LMArena German	1362	1432
LMArena Japanese	1171	1378
LMArena Korean	1232	1380
LMArena Russian	1358	1411
LMArena Spanish	1354	1433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following	1353	1398

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query	1366	1406
CL-bench	11.4%	—
CL-bench Life	6.3%	—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Mistral Medium
LMArena Text	1359	1424
LMArena Creative Writing	1331	1391
LMArena Multi-Turn	1364	1418
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	77.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1361	—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.5 better than Mistral Medium?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

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

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.5 has 33 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.