DBRX Instruct vs MiniMax M2.7

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

MiniMax M2.7 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 57 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiniMax M2.7's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57 against 34.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 41% to 57%.

MiniMax M2.7 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for DBRX Instruct. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

MiniMax M2.7

DBRX Instruct

34.3

MiniMax M2.7

57

41%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
31%
BrowseComp
Coming soon
29%
OSWorld-Verified
Coming soon
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Toolathlon
46.3%
Coming soon
MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
Coming soon
MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

DBRX Instruct

48

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

70.1%
HumanEval
Coming soon
48%
SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
Coming soon
SWE Multilingual
76.5%
Coming soon
Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
Coming soon
VIBE-Pro
55.6%
Coming soon
NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

36%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
35%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
Coming soon
GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

36%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
37%
MRCRv2
Coming soon

Knowledge

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

73.7%
MMLU
Coming soon
52%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Multilingual

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

46%
MMLU-ProX
Coming soon

Mathematics

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DBRX Instruct or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 41% and 57%.

Which is better for coding, DBRX Instruct or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 48. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DBRX Instruct or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 34.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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