# Mercury vs MiniMax-M2.1

> MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-minimax-m2-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.1 in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 58.5 to 46.2.
- MiniMax-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 38.4 |
| Rank | 192 | 177 |
| Context | — | 205K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 40.1 (#132)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | 1421 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1384 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 623.83 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mercury: —
- MiniMax-M2.1: 27.7 (#91)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 36.6% |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 15.8 (#301)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1410 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 11.2% |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- MiniMax-M2.1: 35.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1396 |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- MiniMax-M2.1: 37.7 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 11.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1432 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 50.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1430 |
| LMArena French | — | 1405 |
| LMArena German | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1386 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1396 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 74.0 (#108)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | 1399 |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#98)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | 1416 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)
- MiniMax-M2.1: 58.5 (#114)

| Benchmark | Mercury | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1392 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1362 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | 1396 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than MiniMax-M2.1?

MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mercury or MiniMax-M2.1 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and MiniMax-M2.1 share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.