# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs MiniMax-M2.1

> MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-minimax-m2-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M2.1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 38.3 to 25.8.
- MiniMax-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 38.9 |
| Rank | 261 | 178 |
| Context | — | 205K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 40.4 (#143)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1421 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1384 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 623.83 |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 27.9 (#98)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 36.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 16.6 (#302)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1411 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 11.2% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#138)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1397 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#147)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 11.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
- MiniMax-M2.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 50.0 (#128)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1430 |
| LMArena French | 1302 | 1404 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1381 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1387 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | 1397 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 73.8 (#112)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1400 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1416 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 58.3 (#120)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1392 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1361 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1396 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than MiniMax-M2.1?

MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or MiniMax-M2.1 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and MiniMax-M2.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.