Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 leads with 3.9% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5.1 Thinking supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
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.
3 months newer

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Minimax M 2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Minimax M 2.5
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Minimax M 2.5
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Minimax M 2.5