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GPT-4.1 Mini vs MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1 leads GPT-4.1 Mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 11.7 to 10.2, and GPT-4.1 Mini costs 1.4x less per output token ($1.60 vs $2.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 29 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace MiniMax M1
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
15
MiniMax M1MiniMax
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$2.20
14
vs boards won of 29 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or MiniMax M1: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for output tokens 1.4x cheaper ($1.60 vs $2.20 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M1MiniMaxNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
29
GPT-4.1 Mini only
57
MiniMax M1 only
0
Like-for-like categories
6 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-4.1 Mini not benchmarked, MiniMax M1 not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 2.8 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena Text: Japanese: GPT-4.1 Mini 1290 against MiniMax M1 1217, 12.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against MiniMax M1 $2.20 per million output tokens, 1.4x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, MiniMax M1 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-4.1 MiniBarsMiniMax M1Ties
Coding20
Intelligence01
Reasoning30
Math02
Knowledge22
General89
All shared boards1514
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Coding Index20.2Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)58.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)48.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
WeirdML37.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding13671359GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT13601359GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
AA Intelligence Index10.211.7MiniMax M1
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)50.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
GPQA Diamond67.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)70.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)66.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)65.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI3.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Chess puzzles1.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles7.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13491339GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: expert13381317GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621353GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
AIME49.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)87.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Math Index46.3Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
OTIS Mock AIME44.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 36.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH level 587.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13431361MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471363MiniMax M1
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
MMLU Pro77.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)78.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)57.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)84.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)78.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281354MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241355MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: legal and government13431337GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13221319GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
Design Arena: websites997Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: UI components958Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: game dev1070Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: data viz1034Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: 3D836Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories993Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index89
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
IFBench38.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
DTBench68.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMCA21.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text13411343MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: instruction following13331312GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing12991297GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561363MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: non-English13181319MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: Chinese13291360MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: German13501350GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese12901217GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean12981266GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: French13581370MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: Spanish13191353MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: Russian13241329MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: Polish13261329MiniMax M1
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541335GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13441326GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13191311GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001303MiniMax M1
LMArena Vision: English1191Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1186Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1188Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1174Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1187Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.0012Fits in one request
MiniMax M1$0.0015Fits in one request

GPT-4.1 Mini costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
MiniMax M1$0.027Fits in one request

GPT-4.1 Mini costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
MiniMax M1$0.102Fits in one request

GPT-4.1 Mini costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-4.1 Mini and MiniMax M1
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniMiniMax M1
MakerOpenAIMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedApril 14, 2025June 17, 2025
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.40
Output $/Mtok$1.60$2.20
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved task$1.818Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4.1 Mini better than MiniMax M1 for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for output tokens 1.4x cheaper ($1.60 vs $2.20 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or MiniMax M1?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 costs $0.40 and $2.20. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or MiniMax M1?

GPT-4.1 Mini, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs MiniMax M1 comparison based on?

29 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4.1 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M1's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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