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MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

MMiniMax: MiniMax M2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1VSMMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5

MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 wins on more metrics (6 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMiniMax: MiniMax M2.1Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Intelligence Index39.4✓39.2
Coding Index32.835.4✓
GPQA Diamond83%✓75%
Design Arena Elo1280✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)149✓47
Latency769ms691ms✓
Input price /M$0.290✓$1.50
Output price /M$0.950✓$7.50
Context window205K262K✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONReasoningToolsJSONVision
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 details →Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 details →