Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.7 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.7 costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 19 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 39.1 to 25.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 24.7% for MiniMax-M2.7 and 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	37.7	40.2
Released	2026-03-18	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	205K	262K
Max output	131K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$1.20	$7.50
Results tracked	30	22

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev	1398	1264
LMArena Coding	1454	1461
SciCode	47%	—
WeirdML	37%	—
ALE-Bench	599.25	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111), Mistral Medium 3.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
Terminal-Bench	45.1%	—
ExploitBench	13.3%	—
GBAEval	0%	—

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.7 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
NYT Connections (extended)	24.7%	12.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1422	1436
Epoch Capabilities Index	145.85	141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	41.4%
CritPt	0.6%	—
Thematic Generalization	39.3%	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1420	1431
ProofBench	3%	—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1444	1432
Vectara Hallucination Rate	12.9%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.7: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1382	1404
LMArena Chinese	1441	1442
LMArena French	1421	1448
LMArena German	1398	1451
LMArena Korean	1313	1385
LMArena Russian	1383	1395
LMArena Spanish	1403	1409
LMArena Japanese	1262	—

Instruction Following Too close to call

MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1405	1415

Long Context Too close to call

MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1419	1415

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.7	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1405	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1354	1374
LMArena Multi-Turn	1412	1423
EQ-Bench 4	—	993

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.7 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2.7 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is MiniMax-M2.7 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.7 has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.