# Mercury 2.5 vs MiniMax M1

> MiniMax M1 has enough public results to be ranked (#146); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-minimax-m1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 34.8 to 22.4.
- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 260K.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 39.7 |
| Rank | — | 146 |
| Context | 260K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | $2.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 39.2 (#149)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1359 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 25.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1340 |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- MiniMax M1: 34.8 (#152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1360 |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 35.7 (#168)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1316 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 46.0 (#157)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1320 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1361 |
| LMArena French | — | 1369 |
| LMArena German | — | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1220 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1330 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 69.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1312 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#136)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1326 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- MiniMax M1: 53.3 (#155)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1335 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 has enough public results to be ranked (#146); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or MiniMax M1?

Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.40 and $2.20.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 260K.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and MiniMax M1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.