Llama 3.1 405B 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 50. 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 coding, where it averages 56.2 against 46.

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 Llama 3.1 405B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Llama 3.1 405B.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3.1 405B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
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Toolathlon
46.3%
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MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
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MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

Llama 3.1 405B

46

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

62%
HumanEval
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46%
SWE-bench Verified
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SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
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SWE Multilingual
76.5%
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Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
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VIBE-Pro
55.6%
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NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

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66%
MuSR
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Knowledge

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70%
MMLU
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70%
GPQA
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68%
SuperGPQA
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71%
MMLU-Pro
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68%
SimpleQA
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Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

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86%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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70%
AIME 2023
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72%
AIME 2024
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71%
AIME 2025
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66%
HMMT Feb 2023
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68%
HMMT Feb 2024
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67%
HMMT Feb 2025
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69%
BRUMO 2025
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82%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 3.1 405B or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 50.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3.1 405B or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 46. Llama 3.1 405B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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