MiniMax M2.7 vs Nemotron Ultra 253B

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 40. 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 31.

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 Nemotron Ultra 253B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Nemotron Ultra 253B is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M2.7 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. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron Ultra 253B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

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

Nemotron Ultra 253B

31

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
41%
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SWE-bench Verified
31%

Multimodal & Grounded

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1495
GDPval-AA
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Reasoning

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MuSR
45%

Knowledge

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
49%
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GPQA
48%
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SuperGPQA
46%
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MMLU-Pro
63%
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SimpleQA
47%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
78%

Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2023
49%
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AIME 2024
51%
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AIME 2025
50%
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HMMT Feb 2023
45%
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HMMT Feb 2024
47%
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HMMT Feb 2025
46%
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BRUMO 2025
48%
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MATH-500
74%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 40.

Which is better for coding, MiniMax M2.7 or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 31. Nemotron Ultra 253B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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