MiniMax M2.7 vs Mistral 8x7B v0.2

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 26. 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 16.

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 Mistral 8x7B v0.2. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B v0.2.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

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

MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

16

56.2%
SWE-bench Pro
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76.5%
SWE Multilingual
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52.7%
Multi-SWE Bench
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55.6%
VIBE-Pro
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39.8%
NL2Repo
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HumanEval
21%
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SWE-bench Verified
16%

Multimodal & Grounded

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1495
GDPval-AA
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Reasoning

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MuSR
25%

Knowledge

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
29%
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GPQA
28%
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SuperGPQA
26%
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MMLU-Pro
52%
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SimpleQA
27%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
67%

Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2023
29%
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AIME 2024
31%
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AIME 2025
30%
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HMMT Feb 2023
25%
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HMMT Feb 2024
27%
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HMMT Feb 2025
26%
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BRUMO 2025
28%
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MATH-500
59%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 26.

Which is better for coding, MiniMax M2.7 or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 16. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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