Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.7 vs Mistral 7B

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Mistral 7B

Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.7 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-M2.7 leads 37.7 to 7.4.
Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.7.
MiniMax-M2.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.7 and Mistral 7B specifications
	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	37.7	23.0
Released	2026-03-18	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	30	37

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding	1454	1082
LMArena WebDev	1398	—
SciCode	47%	—
WeirdML	37%	—
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	27.3%
ALE-Bench	599.25	—
HumanEval+	—	36%
MBPP+	—	42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
Terminal-Bench	45.1%	—
ExploitBench	13.3%	—
GBAEval	0%	—

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1422	1067
Epoch Capabilities Index	145.85	112.21
NYT Connections (extended)	24.7%	—
CritPt	0.6%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
Thematic Generalization	39.3%	—
DTBench	—	42.5%
Adversarial NLI	—	47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	56.1%
HellaSwag	—	81%
PIQA	—	83%
WinoGrande	—	75.3%

Math MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Math	1420	1085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	0.3%
ProofBench	3%	—
MATH Level 5	—	3.7%
GSM8K	—	54.4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Expert	1444	1036
GPQA Diamond	—	15.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	12.9%	—
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	78.6%
BoolQ	—	87.4%
MMLU	—	62.5%
OpenBookQA	—	79.8%
TriviaQA	—	75.2%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English	1382	1012
LMArena Chinese	1441	1009
LMArena French	1421	1037
LMArena German	1398	987
LMArena Japanese	1262	878
LMArena Russian	1383	1018
LMArena Spanish	1403	1026
LMArena Korean	1313	—

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1405	1060

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query	1419	1060

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral 7B
LMArena Text	1405	1090
LMArena Creative Writing	1354	1068
LMArena Multi-Turn	1412	1062

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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

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

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.7 does, with 205K tokens against 8K.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.7 has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.