# Mercury 2 vs MiniMax-M2.7

> Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury 2 scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 41.4 to 33.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 38.7% for Mercury 2 and 47% for MiniMax-M2.7.
- Mercury 2 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.7.
- MiniMax-M2.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.
- MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 38.8 | 37.4 |
| Rank | 167 | 188 |
| Context | 128K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2: 33.2 (#250)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 41.4 (#115)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1170 | 1397 |
| SciCode | 38.7% | 47% |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | 37% |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | 1454 |
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | 599.25 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mercury 2: —
- MiniMax-M2.7: 24.9 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 45.1% |
| ExploitBench | — | 13.3% |
| GBAEval | — | 0% |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2: 23.0 (#170)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 19.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | 1422 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 24.7% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 39.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.84 |

## Math

- Mercury 2: —
- MiniMax-M2.7: 24.9 (#254)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1420 |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2: 35.6 (#170)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 37.1 (#151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | 1443 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2: 46.8 (#153)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 50.5 (#120)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | 1382 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1416 | 1439 |
| LMArena Russian | 1303 | 1383 |
| LMArena French | — | 1422 |
| LMArena German | — | 1398 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2: 70.4 (#161)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 74.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1328 | 1404 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2: 40.4 (#149)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#94)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1329 | 1419 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2: 54.0 (#151)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 59.1 (#107)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | 1404 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | 1354 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | 1413 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2 better than MiniMax-M2.7?

Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2 or MiniMax-M2.7?

Mercury 2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.7 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

### Is Mercury 2 or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.