Gemini 2.5 Pro vs MiniMax M1 40K
Wins 3 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 24 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the four areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Gemini 2.5 Pro pulls ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+24.2points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+15.4points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+13.3points ahead
Where MiniMax M1 40K pulls ahead
- Questions about very long textsLongBench v2+2.2points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 24 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingGemini 2.5 Pro
- Terminal-Bench HardGemini 2.5 Pro by 24.226.52.3+24.2
- SciCodeGemini 2.5 Pro by 8.546.337.8+8.5
- SWE-bench VerifiedGemini 2.5 Pro by 7.663.255.6+7.6
ReasoningGemini 2.5 Pro
- GPQA DiamondGemini 2.5 Pro by 15.483.668.2+15.4
- Humanity's Last ExamGemini 2.5 Pro by 10.2187.8+10.2
Long documentsEven
- AA-LCRGemini 2.5 Pro by 13.36955.7+13.3
- LongBench v2MiniMax M1 40K by 2.258.861+2.2
Following instructionsGemini 2.5 Pro
- Multi-ChallengeGemini 2.5 Pro by 8.953.644.7+8.9
- IFBenchGemini 2.5 Pro by 7.548.741.2+7.5
Other results15 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- SimpleQAGemini 2.5 Pro by 32.950.817.9+32.9
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexGemini 2.5 Pro by 32.646.714.1+32.6
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Gemini 2.5 Pro by 22.554.131.6+22.5
- LiveCodeBench (24/8~25/5)Gemini 2.5 Pro by 14.877.162.3+14.8
- LiveCodeBenchGemini 2.5 Pro by 11.974.262.3+11.9
- ZebraLogicGemini 2.5 Pro by 11.591.680.1+11.5
- TAU-bench (airline)MiniMax M1 40K by 105060+10
- AIME 2024Gemini 2.5 Pro by 8.79283.3+8.7
- AIME 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro by 8.48374.6+8.4
- MMLU-ProGemini 2.5 Pro by 5.48680.6+5.4
- AA IntelligenceGemini 2.5 Pro by 51510+5
- MATH-500 (EM)Gemini 2.5 Pro by 2.898.896+2.8
- TAU-bench (retail)tie6767.8tie
- OpenAI-MRCR (128k)tie76.876.1tie
- OpenAI-MRCR (1M)tie58.858.6tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or MiniMax M1 40K?
Gemini 2.5 Pro wins three of the four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning and following instructions. MiniMax M1 40K wins none. They are level on long documents.
Which is better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro. It wins 3 of the 3 coding tests both models report; MiniMax M1 40K wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 24 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 9 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 15 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.