Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast offers 1.8M more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $4.50 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 4.1 Fast supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast, released by xAI in November 2025, is a fast-response variant from the Grok 4 family featuring a 2M token context window designed for high-throughput applications. It omits thinking tokens for immediate responses, reducing latency while maintaining strong output quality. Grok 4.1 Fast targets production APIs, real-time assistants, and cost-sensitive applications requiring long-context understanding at high volume.
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.
2 months newer

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
2025-11-17
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 4.1 Fast
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 4.1 Fast
Minimax M 2.5
Grok 4.1 Fast
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax