Mercury 2 vs MiniMax M1 80k

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

Mercury 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mercury 2's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 80.1 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 82 to 32.

Mercury 2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M1 80k is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Mercury 2 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 80K for MiniMax M1 80k.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mercury 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M1 80k only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

63.7

MiniMax M1 80k

32.1

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
67
BrowseComp
37
62
OSWorld-Verified
31

Coding

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

41.1

MiniMax M1 80k

13.8

75
HumanEval
28
46
SWE-bench Verified
16
38
LiveCodeBench
10
43
SWE-bench Pro
17

Multimodal & Grounded

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

68.3

MiniMax M1 80k

39

66
MMMU-Pro
34
71
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

80.1

MiniMax M1 80k

41.7

82
SimpleQA
34
82
MuSR
32
87
BBH
64
77
LongBench v2
45
76
MRCRv2
46

Knowledge

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

57.2

MiniMax M1 80k

31.3

78
MMLU
36
78
GPQA
35
76
SuperGPQA
33
74
OpenBookQA
31
72
MMLU-Pro
51
9
HLE
2
69
FrontierScience
39

Instruction Following

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

84

MiniMax M1 80k

68

84
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

79.7

MiniMax M1 80k

59.1

81
MGSM
63
79
MMLU-ProX
57

Mathematics

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

80.9

MiniMax M1 80k

44.9

81
AIME 2023
36
83
AIME 2024
38
82
AIME 2025
37
77
HMMT Feb 2023
32
79
HMMT Feb 2024
34
78
HMMT Feb 2025
33
80
BRUMO 2025
35
82
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 is ahead overall, 65 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 82 and 32.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.2 versus 31.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 13.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 44.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 41.7. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 32.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 39. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mercury 2 or MiniMax M1 80k?

Mercury 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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