Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
MiniMax M2.1 offers 56.3K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o. MiniMax M2.1 is $11.20 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4o supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4o
MiniMax M2.1
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4o
OpenAI
MiniMax M2.1
GPT-4o
MiniMax M2.1
GPT-4o
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax