Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 offers 56.6K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $0.70 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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.
12 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 3 mini
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 3 mini
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax