Which is better for coding — GPT-5.1 Instant or MiniMax M2.5?

On the SWE-Bench benchmark, MiniMax M2.5 shows a better result: 0.8 vs 0.8.

Which model is cheaper — GPT-5.1 Instant or MiniMax M2.5?

API pricing data is available on the individual model pages.

Which has a larger context window — GPT-5.1 Instant or MiniMax M2.5?

Context window data is available on the individual model pages.

GPT-5.1 Instant vs MiniMax M2.5: Specs & Benchmark Comparison

Characteristic	GPT-5.1 Instant	MiniMax M2.5
Company	OpenAI	MiniMax
Release Date	November 11, 2025	February 11, 2026
Parameters	—	230B
Multimodal	Yes	Yes
Context (input)	256K	—
Context (output)	32K	—
Input Price / 1M	$0.30	—
Output Price / 1M	$1.20	—
Average Score	0.9	0.7
Benchmarks
SWE-Bench Verified	0.8	0.8

Visual Benchmark Comparison

GPT-5.1 Instant

MiniMax M2.5

SWE-Bench Verified0.8 vs 0.8

0.8

Verdict

MiniMax M2.5 leads in 1 out of 3 comparison categories.

Overall Performance

Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5.1 Instant — 0.9, MiniMax M2.5 — 0.7.

Programming

On SWE-Bench, both models are nearly equal: GPT-5.1 Instant — 0.8, MiniMax M2.5 — 0.8.

Recency

MiniMax M2.5 is newer: released 2/11/2026 vs 11/11/2025.

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