DeepSeek Coder 2.0 vs MiniMax M2.7

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

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek Coder 2.0's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 67.5 against 57. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 73% to 57%. MiniMax M2.7 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

MiniMax M2.7 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.27 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens for DeepSeek Coder 2.0. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek Coder 2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek Coder 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek Coder 2.0

DeepSeek Coder 2.0

67.5

MiniMax M2.7

57

73%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
62%
BrowseComp
Coming soon
65%
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

DeepSeek Coder 2.0

52.7

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

82%
HumanEval
Coming soon
51%
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
45%
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
61%
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

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50%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
69%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
Coming soon
GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

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76%
MuSR
Coming soon
84%
BBH
Coming soon
73%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
71%
MRCRv2
Coming soon

Knowledge

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80%
MMLU
Coming soon
79%
GPQA
Coming soon
77%
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
73%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
14%
HLE
Coming soon
72%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
78%
SimpleQA
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

Coming soon

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86%
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Coming soon

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83%
MGSM
Coming soon
78%
MMLU-ProX
Coming soon

Mathematics

Coming soon

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

81%
AIME 2023
Coming soon
83%
AIME 2024
Coming soon
82%
AIME 2025
Coming soon
77%
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
79%
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
78%
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
80%
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
81%
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or MiniMax M2.7?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 is ahead overall, 66 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 73% and 57%.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 52.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or MiniMax M2.7?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 57. 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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