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Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.7 vs Ministral 3B

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 5.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 37.7 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 12.9% for MiniMax-M2.7 and 7.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.7.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
ProviderMiniMaxMistral AI
Noometry Index37.726.2
Released2026-03-182024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K131K
Max output131K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$0.10
Results tracked306

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
LMArena WebDev1398—
SciCode47%—
WeirdML37%—
LMArena Coding1454—
ALE-Bench599.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
Terminal-Bench45.1%—
ExploitBench13.3%—
GBAEval0%—

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index145.85118.1
NYT Connections (extended)24.7%—
CritPt0.6%—
Thematic Generalization39.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1422—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%

Math Too close to call

MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
ProofBench3%—
LMArena Math1420—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%7.3%
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
LMArena Expert1444—

Multilingual Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English1382—
LMArena Chinese1441—
LMArena French1421—
LMArena German1398—
LMArena Japanese1262—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Russian1383—
LMArena Spanish1403—

Instruction Following Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1405—

Long Context Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1419—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2.7Ministral 3B
LMArena Text1405—
LMArena Creative Writing1354—
LMArena Multi-Turn1412—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.7 better than Ministral 3B?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 5.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2.7 or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.7 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.7 does, with 205K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.7 and Ministral 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.7 has 30 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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