MiniMax

MiniMax M2.1

Under evaluation
Maker
MiniMax
Origin
China
Released
Dec 23, 2025
Category
Coding & Agentic

Strengths & weaknesses

  • Low-cost alternative that holds up reasonably on coding benchmarks
  • Good option for parallel, high-volume exploratory tasks
  • Clearly behind the frontier coding leaders on hard problems
  • Smaller ecosystem and community support than bigger rivals

Evaluation

In assessment · 55% measured

Scored on MiniMax M2.1 · sources as of Nov 4, 2026

  • Code qualityw45—

    No independent measurement yet

  • Web developmentw404.3

    Rule B1,384 rating (95% 1,374–1,394) from 7,573 votes · Scale 1,050–1,800, 0 to 10 · LMArena WebDev arena (minimax-m2.1-preview) · Oct 28, 2026

  • Codebase contextw156.6

    Rule B204,800 tokens · Scale 8,192–1,048,576 tokens, 0 to 10 · OpenRouter, context window · Nov 4, 2026

Price & availability

Measured the same way, deliberately kept out of the score: what a model costs doesn’t change what it can do.

w = weight, each criterion’s share of the overall score. Missing marks don’t count for or against. How scoring works

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