# Grok 4.20 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 4.20 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-4-20-beta-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.20 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Grok 4.20 leads overall 59.74 to 47.85.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 41.1 for Grok 4.20 and 76.1 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Vibe Code Bench in Coding, with scores of 4.06% and 27.04%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Grok 4.20 also has the larger context window at 2M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 2M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 59.74 | 47.85 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 23 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.25 / $2.50 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: MiniMax M2.7
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 23.3 (Supported · #95/117)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 29.1 (Supported · #82/117)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 47.1% | 57% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| DeepSearchQA | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 38.36% | 40.40% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 44.2% | 48.7% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: MiniMax M2.7
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 22.5 (Supported · #115/143)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 36 (Supported · #77/143)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.8% | 56.2% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 4.06% | 27.04% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.3% | 79.9% | Grok 4.20 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 72.2% | 73.8% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 51.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 41.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 76.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 53.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 35.6 (#45/50)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 75.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 60.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 65.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Grok 4.20
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 49.2 (Supported · #64/169)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43 (Supported · #86/169)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.5% | 87.0% | Grok 4.20 |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 20.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 50.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.6% | 86.6% | Grok 4.20 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | 80.4% | Grok 4.20 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 91.6 (#10/124)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Grok 4.20 or MiniMax M2.7?

Grok 4.20 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Grok 4.20 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 41.1 for Grok 4.20 and 76.1 for MiniMax M2.7.

### How many benchmarks does Grok 4.20 cover on BenchLM?

Grok 4.20 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [MiniMax M2.7 vs Grok 4.20 Multi-agent](/compare/grok-4-20-multi-agent-beta-vs-minimax-m2-7)
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- [MiniMax M2.7 vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-minimax-m2-7)

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