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MiniMax M2.1 vs Mistral Small 3 24B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
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Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 is a 24-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released in January 2025 as an update to the Mistral Small line with targeted improvements to instruction-following, multilingual reasoning, and structured output quality. Released under Apache 2.0, it was designed for deployment on a single high-VRAM GPU, continuing Mistral's focus on practical efficiency over maximum scale. The model became a widely-used option for teams building internal tooling, customer-facing applications, and local inference pipelines that needed strong general capability without the operational overhead of larger models.
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Mistral Small 3 24B
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Performance Metrics
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Provider Availability & Performance
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MiniMax M2.1
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Mistral Small 3 24B
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MiniMax M2.1
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Mistral Small 3 24B
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