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Llama 4 Maverick vs MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax M2.1 leads Llama 4 Maverick on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 20.9 to 9.3, and Llama 4 Maverick costs 1.2x less per output token ($1.00 vs $1.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 30 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Llama 4 Maverick Replace MiniMax M2.1
Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama
Coding
No data
Overall
21.8
Output $/M
$1.00
4
MiniMax M2.1MiniMax
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.20
26
vs boards won of 30 shared

Llama 4 Maverick or MiniMax M2.1: which to pick

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

Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($1.00 vs $1.20 per million) and a larger context window (524K against 205K tokens).

Model ALlama 4 MaverickMeta LlamaNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.491 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M2.1MiniMaxNot benchmarked1 independent benchmark$0.59 per solved task
Shared results
30
Llama 4 Maverick only
55
MiniMax M2.1 only
4
Like-for-like categories
8 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
Llama 4 Maverick not benchmarked, MiniMax M2.1 not benchmarked.
Widest category
Agentic work, 67.5 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
τ²-Bench Telecom: Llama 4 Maverick 17.8% against MiniMax M2.1 85.4%, 67.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Llama 4 Maverick $1.00 against MiniMax M2.1 $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
Context window
Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens, MiniMax M2.1 205K.

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
CategoryLlama 4 MaverickBarsMiniMax M2.1Ties
Coding04
Intelligence01
Agentic work01
Reasoning03
Math14
Knowledge34
Web design06
General03
All shared boards426
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
Coding benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
Aider polyglot15.6%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SWE-bench Verified21.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
AA Coding Index16.3Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)47.3%81.8%MiniMax M2.1
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured74.8%Only MiniMax M2.1 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)39.7%81.0%MiniMax M2.1
SciCode31.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)6.8%28.8%MiniMax M2.1
Terminal-BenchNot measured36.6%Only MiniMax M2.1 measured
WeirdML24.5%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
ALE-Bench173.0623.8MiniMax M2.1
LMArena Text: coding1301Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: software and IT1299Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
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 Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
AA Intelligence Index9.320.9MiniMax M2.1
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
AA Agentic Index0.6Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
τ²-Bench Telecom17.8%85.4%MiniMax M2.1
Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Reasoning benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
GPQA Diamond69.4%78.5%MiniMax M2.1
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)71.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)67.1%83.0%MiniMax M2.1
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)4.9%23.2%MiniMax M2.1
ARC-AGI4.4%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SimpleBench27.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts1281Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: expert1259Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English1295Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: diagrams1134Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: homework1164Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
Math benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
AIME25.2%77.9%MiniMax M2.1
MATH 500 (Vals AI)85.2%89.0%MiniMax M2.1
MGSM (Vals AI)92.4%87.8%Llama 4 Maverick
AA Math Index19.382.7MiniMax M2.1
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)19.3%82.7%MiniMax M2.1
LMArena Text: math1299Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work1295Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index34
Knowledge benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
MMLU Pro79.4%87.0%MiniMax M2.1
LegalBench (Vals AI)77.8%75.5%Llama 4 Maverick
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured55.8%Only MiniMax M2.1 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)49.7%58.9%MiniMax M2.1
TaxEval (Vals AI)66.6%66.3%Llama 4 Maverick
MortgageTax (Vals AI)58.5%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
MedQA (Vals AI)43.3%91.2%MiniMax M2.1
MedCode (Vals AI)36.5%34.1%Llama 4 Maverick
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)80.9%87.5%MiniMax M2.1
GeoBench52.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: science1288Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare1275Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: legal and government1286Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: business and finance1260Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
Web design benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
Design Arena: websites8711201MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: UI components8971220MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: game dev8371134MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: data viz8821206MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: 3D9001164MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: all code categories8791190MiniMax M2.1
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1131Only MiniMax M2.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
General benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)35.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)54.2%80.8%MiniMax M2.1
IFBench43.0%69.9%MiniMax M2.1
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)50.0%67.7%MiniMax M2.1
DTBench61.9%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMCA15.9%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)62.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text1287Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: instruction following1267Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: creative writing1266Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision1142Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: English1303Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: non-English1269Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Chinese1277Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: German1291Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Japanese1206Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Korean1203Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: French1259Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Spanish1293Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Russian1286Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Polish1275Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn1289Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: longer queries1280Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: writing and language1277Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and media1250Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: English1150Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1141Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1143Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: humor1100Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1099Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1Leader
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

Llama 4 Maverick$0.0008Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.1$0.0009Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Llama 4 Maverick$0.021Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.1$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.1 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Llama 4 Maverick$0.080Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.1$0.072Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2.1 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 Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.1
SpecificationMeta Llama 4 MaverickMiniMax M2.1
MakerMeta LlamaMiniMax
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedApril 5, 2025December 23, 2025
Context window524K205K
Input $/Mtok$0.35$0.30
Output $/Mtok$1.00$1.20
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it01
Cost per solved task$1.491$0.59
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than MiniMax M2.1 for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($1.00 vs $1.20 per million) and a larger context window (524K against 205K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or MiniMax M2.1?

Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2.1 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.491 and MiniMax M2.1 $0.59.

Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or MiniMax M2.1?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Maverick vs MiniMax M2.1 comparison based on?

30 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Maverick's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2.1's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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