MiniMax M2.7 vs o4-mini (high)

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 51. 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 42.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 56.2% to 42%.

o4-mini (high) 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o4-mini (high) only becomes the better choice if 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

o4-mini (high)

42.5

56.2%
SWE-bench Pro
42%
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
74%
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SWE-bench Verified
68.1%
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LiveCodeBench
34%

Multimodal & Grounded

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1495
GDPval-AA
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Reasoning

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ARC-AGI-2
2.4%

Knowledge

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
82%
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GPQA
82%
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SuperGPQA
80%
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MMLU-Pro
76%
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HLE
13%
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FrontierScience
73%
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SimpleQA
80%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2023
83%
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AIME 2024
93.4%
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AIME 2025
92.7%
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HMMT Feb 2023
79%
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HMMT Feb 2024
81%
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HMMT Feb 2025
80%
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BRUMO 2025
82%
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MATH-500
84%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or o4-mini (high)?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 56.2% and 42%.

Which is better for coding, MiniMax M2.7 or o4-mini (high)?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 42.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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