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MiniMax-M2.1 Preview

MiniMax OPEN MIT
Verdict

MiniMax-M2.1 Preview is a solid mid-pack model: #165 of 406 by SIscope score. Strongest at following instructions, weaker at coding. Weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

SIscope score
54
#165 of 406
Human-vote rank
#168
of 419 · score 1392
Price per 1M tokens, blended
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Context window
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Speed: coming soon

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsno data yetReasoningMathChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding46
Agents & toolsNo data yet–
Reasoning & knowledge64
Math58
Chat quality60
Following instructions69

What goes into each category · Compare with Gemini 4 Carbon

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

138513931400Oct 20: 1391.9 (rank #166)Oct 22: 1392.1 (rank #167)Oct 28: 1392 (rank #168)Oct 20Oct 28

Coding votes over time

WebDev arena, recent updates.

138013851390Oct 16: 1384.3 (rank #102)Oct 18: 1384.3 (rank #103)Oct 19: 1384.3 (rank #106)Oct 22: 1384.4 (rank #107)Oct 23: 1384.5 (rank #108)Oct 27: 1384.2 (rank #109)Oct 28: 1384 (rank #110)Oct 16Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

No Epoch AI runs for this model yet.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#168 of 41913921387–139717,222Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
#110 of 15213841374–13947,573Oct 28, 2026
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
Not on this board yet

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

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