Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 812.3K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $16.50 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 3 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows 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.
12 months newer

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