Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini offers 828.7K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Both models have similar pricing. GPT-4.1 mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-4.1 family designed for efficient, cost-effective deployments requiring long-context understanding. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with maintained coding and instruction-following capabilities relative to its size. GPT-4.1 mini targets applications needing a balance between response speed, cost, and capability, such as production APIs with high request volumes.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
10 months newer

GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4.1 mini
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
Minimax M 2.5
GPT-4.1 mini
Minimax M 2.5
GPT-4.1 mini
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax