# Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs MiniMax-M2.7

> MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-3-70b-instruct-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 43.3 to 26.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 14.4% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 37% for MiniMax-M2.7.
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.7.
- MiniMax-M2.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 291 | 196 |
| Context | 128K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.10 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $0.32 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 26% | 47% |
| WeirdML | 14.4% | 37% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1454 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1398 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 599.25 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 45.1% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 31.9% | — |
| BALROG | 23% | — |
| ExploitBench | — | 13.3% |
| GBAEval | — | 0% |

## Reasoning

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1422 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.33 | 145.85 |
| SimpleBench | 19.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 24.7% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 39.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.8% | — |
| DTBench | 59.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 49.5% | — |
| LMCA | 17.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.6 | — |
| LiveBench | 50.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1267 | 1420 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.1% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| LiveBench Math | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 41.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.1% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1225 | 1444 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.8% | — |
| MMLU | 86.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1236 | 1382 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1217 | 1441 |
| LMArena French | 1281 | 1421 |
| LMArena German | 1251 | 1398 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1143 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1252 | 1383 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1270 | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1242 | 1405 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 82.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1256 | 1419 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1274 | 1405 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1250 | 1354 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1280 | 1412 |
| LiveBench Language | 39.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or MiniMax-M2.7?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.7 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

### Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.7 does, with 205K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.