Which is better for coding — GPT-5 Medium or MiniMax M2.7?

Direct comparison on the SWE-Bench benchmark is not available. We recommend reviewing other metrics on the comparison page.

Which model is cheaper — GPT-5 Medium or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is cheaper for input: $0.30 per 1M tokens vs $0.75.

Which has a larger context window — GPT-5 Medium or MiniMax M2.7?

GPT-5 Medium supports a larger context: 400,000 tokens vs 205,000.

GPT-5 Medium vs MiniMax M2.7: Specs & Benchmark Comparison

Characteristic	GPT-5 Medium	MiniMax M2.7
Company	OpenAI	MiniMax
Release Date	August 6, 2025	March 18, 2026
Parameters	—	—
Multimodal	Yes	No
Context (input)	400K	205K
Context (output)	64K	100K
Input Price / 1M	$0.75	$0.30
Output Price / 1M	$3.00	$1.20
Average Score	0.9	0.0

Verdict

MiniMax M2.7 leads in 2 out of 3 comparison categories.

API Cost

MiniMax M2.7 is 2.5x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $0.75/1M tokens.

Context Window

GPT-5 Medium supports a larger context: 400K vs 205K tokens.

Recency

MiniMax M2.7 is newer: released 3/18/2026 vs 8/6/2025.

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