Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 offers 64.8K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Minimax M 2.5 is $10.50 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
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.
1 year newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 2
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 2
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 2
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax