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MiniMax-M2 vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2 and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2 MiniMax

37.4

Rank #204 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2 scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax-M2 leads 37.3 to 26.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 61% for MiniMax-M2 and 75.8% for MiniMax-M2.5.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
Noometry Index37.438.3
Released2025-10-272026-02-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K205K
Max output131K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$1.20
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)61%75.8%
LMArena WebDev12971387
LMArena Coding13701381
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
ALE-Bench—618.17

Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109), MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench30%42.7%
Vending-Bench 2160.6-23.16

Reasoning MiniMax-M2 leads

MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.8%55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)14.8%16.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13571372
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.68

Math MiniMax-M2 leads

MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math13521378
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert13371379
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English13131338
LMArena Chinese13661393
LMArena French13351362
LMArena German13551362
LMArena Russian13311358
LMArena Spanish13261354
LMArena Japanese—1171
LMArena Korean—1232

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13281353

Long Context MiniMax-M2 leads

MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query13311366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkMiniMax-M2MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text13401359
LMArena Creative Writing12861331
LMArena Multi-Turn13611364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2 better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2 and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

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

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

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 39.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 205K tokens.

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

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

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