# MiniMax-M2 vs Mistral Medium

> MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/minimax-m2-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2 scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2 leads 37.0 to 25.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 57.8% for MiniMax-M2 and 50% for Mistral Medium.
- MiniMax-M2 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

## Snapshot

| | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.4 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 204 | 218 |
| Context | 205K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 61% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1297 | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 30% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 160.6 | — |

## Reasoning

- MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.8% | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1357 | 1426 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 14.8% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |

## Math

- MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1337 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |

## Multimodal

- MiniMax-M2: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1366 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1335 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1355 | 1432 |
| LMArena Russian | 1331 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1326 | 1433 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |

## Instruction Following

- MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1328 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1331 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1286 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1361 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

### Is MiniMax-M2 better than Mistral Medium?

MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2 or Mistral Medium?

MiniMax-M2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is MiniMax-M2 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

MiniMax-M2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

### How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2 and Mistral Medium share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2 has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.