Model comparison
MiniMax-M2.5 vs phi-3-medium 14B
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 39.2 to 9.1.
Side by side
| MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-02-12 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 205K | — |
| Max output | 131K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 33 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1387 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1381 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 618.17 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 42.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -23.16 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.68 | 121.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 16.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Too close to call
MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1378 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1379 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1393 | — |
| LMArena French | 1362 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1171 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1232 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1354 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1353 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 11.4% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 6.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1366 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1359 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1361 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1364 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is MiniMax-M2.5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is MiniMax-M2.5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.5 has 33 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.