# MiniMax M2.7 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniMax M2.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m2-7-vs-mistral-medium-3-5-128b
- Last updated: September 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- MiniMax M2.7 leads overall 55.14 to 42.49.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 41.1 for MiniMax M2.7 and 22 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond (Vals) in Knowledge, with scores of 86.6% and 34.8%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniMax M2.7 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Mistral |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Overall Score | 55.14 | 42.49 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 23 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | $1.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #110/153)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 22 (Supported · #151/153)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 46.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | 62.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 40.40% | 39.10% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 48.7% | 39.0% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.6 (Estimated · #68/152)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 39.2 (Estimated · #121/152)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 51.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 76.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | 52.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 39.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 27.04% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 71.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 73.8% | 66.4% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: MiniMax M2.7
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #90/183)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 40.5 (Supported · #132/183)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 86.6% | 34.8% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 80.4% | 75.3% | MiniMax M2.7 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 93 (#10/123)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 84 (#48/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M2.7 or Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MiniMax M2.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 41.1 for MiniMax M2.7 and 22 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Medium 3.5 128B cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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