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MiniMax M2.5 vs MiMo-V2.5

MiMo-V2.5 leads MiniMax M2.5 on coding, 50.0 to 37.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiMo-V2.5 costs 3.6x less per output token ($0.336 vs $1.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 55 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace MiniMax M2.5 Replace MiMo-V2.5
MiniMax M2.5MiniMax
Coding
37.2
Overall
37.3
Output $/M
$1.20
8
MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi
Coding
50.0
Overall
50.7
Output $/M
$0.336
47
vs boards won of 55 shared

MiniMax M2.5 or MiMo-V2.5: which to pick

Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.2 for MiniMax M2.5.

Pick MiniMax M2.5 for work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or ALE-Bench, where it leads.

Model AMiniMax M2.5MiniMax37.2/1003 independent benchmarks$0.62 per solved taskModel BMiMo-V2.5Xiaomi50.0/1003 independent benchmarks$0.01 per solved task
Shared results
55
MiniMax M2.5 only
13
MiMo-V2.5 only
25
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
MiniMax M2.5 37.2 from 3 benchmarks, MiMo-V2.5 50.0 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
General, 11.7 points apart on average over 19 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): MiniMax M2.5 14.8% against MiMo-V2.5 42.2%, 27.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
MiniMax M2.5 $1.20 against MiMo-V2.5 $0.336 per million output tokens, 3.6x apart.
Context window
MiniMax M2.5 takes 205K tokens, MiMo-V2.5 1.05M.

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
CategoryMiniMax M2.5BarsMiMo-V2.5Ties
Coding28
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning15
Math03
Knowledge17
Web design07
General217
All shared boards847
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index28
Coding benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
SWE-bench Verified75.8%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual68.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
LMArena WebDev13861438MiMo-V2.5
AA Coding IndexNot measured56.8Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)79.2%81.5%MiMo-V2.5
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)74.2%71.0%MiniMax M2.5
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)14.8%42.2%MiMo-V2.5
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured14.2%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured60.7%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
SciCodeNot measured43.9%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)34.8%41.7%MiMo-V2.5
Terminal-Bench42.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
ALE-Bench618.2514.0MiniMax M2.5
LMArena Text: coding13801469MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: software and IT13831463MiMo-V2.5
LMArena WebDev: React13741425MiMo-V2.5
LMArena WebDev: HTML14141429MiMo-V2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
AA Intelligence Index22.821.8MiniMax M2.5
Epoch Capabilities Index146.6Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured15.8Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured36.7%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured7.8%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured9.1%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured55.1%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom95.3%90.6%MiniMax M2.5
Vending-Bench 2-$23Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15
Reasoning benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
GPQA Diamond82.1%81.6%MiniMax M2.5
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured80.0%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)84.8%84.9%MiMo-V2.5
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)20.5%27.2%MiMo-V2.5
ARC-AGI63.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
ARC-AGI-24.9%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13721450MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: expert13781459MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13841461MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1269Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1262Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
AIME88.8%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
ProofBench4.0%16.0%MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: math13781436MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work13781451MiMo-V2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17
Knowledge benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
MMLU Pro80.1%82.9%MiMo-V2.5
LegalBench (Vals AI)80.0%78.9%MiniMax M2.5
CaseLaw (Vals AI)53.5%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)59.6%59.9%MiMo-V2.5
TaxEval (Vals AI)68.2%71.8%MiMo-V2.5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured59.3%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)92.5%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured31.9%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Text: science13691440MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13571432MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: legal and government13661425MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: business and finance13561432MiMo-V2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index07
Web design benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
Design Arena: websites12221266MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: UI components11701255MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: game dev11761249MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: data viz11721250MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: 3D11701215MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: all code categories12071260MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: SVG11501180MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1140Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index217
General benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured43.3%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured72.2%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured52.8%Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
IFBench71.6%67.1%MiniMax M2.5
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)73.3%73.0%MiniMax M2.5
CL-bench11.4%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
CL-bench Life6.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M2.5 measured
LMArena Text13591428MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: instruction following13531435MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: creative writing13311393MiMo-V2.5
LMArena VisionNot measured1247Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Text: English13801447MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: non-English13381405MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Chinese13931469MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: German13611421MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Japanese11711306MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Korean12331361MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: French13631448MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Spanish13531414MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Russian13591396MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Polish13341413MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: multi-turn13641445MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: longer queries13661445MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: writing and language13451409MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13291399MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1259Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1326Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1256Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1226Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1189Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1230Only MiMo-V2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.5MiMo-V2.5Leader
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

MiniMax M2.5$0.0009Fits in one request
MiMo-V2.5$0.0003Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

MiniMax M2.5$0.019Fits in one request
MiMo-V2.5$0.0094Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

MiniMax M2.5$0.072Exceeds the context window
MiMo-V2.5$0.037Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 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 MiniMax M2.5 and MiMo-V2.5
SpecificationMiniMax M2.5Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5
MakerMiniMaxXiaomi
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedFebruary 12, 2026April 22, 2026
Context window205K1.05M
Input $/Mtok$0.30$0.168
Output $/Mtok$1.20$0.336
Coding index37.250.0
Independent measurements behind it33
Cost per solved task$0.62$0.01
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is MiniMax M2.5 better than MiMo-V2.5 for coding?

Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.2 for MiniMax M2.5. Pick MiniMax M2.5 for work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or ALE-Bench, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.168 and $0.336. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.62 and MiMo-V2.5 $0.01.

Which has the bigger context window, MiniMax M2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks is the MiniMax M2.5 vs MiMo-V2.5 comparison based on?

55 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. MiniMax M2.5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and MiMo-V2.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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