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Devstral 2vsMiniMax M2

Devstral 2 leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. MiniMax M2 is 1.6x cheaper per token. Devstral 2 has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 1
Devstral 2 leads
Cheaper per token
MiniMax M2
1.6x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Devstral 2
256K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Mistral AI · MiniMax
Devstral 2
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-09
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Context
256K
Max out
—
Input /1M
$0.4 ↗
Output /1M
$2 ↗
Cached /1M
—
Scores
4 · 3 core
MiniMax M2
MiniMax · released 2025-10-27
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Context
205K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$0.3 ↗
Output /1M
$1.2 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.03
Scores
17 · 6 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDevstral 2MiniMax M2ΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
SWE-bench Verified72.2% ↗69.4% ↗+2.8 ptDevstral 2
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1196.1 ↗1296.6 ↗-100.5MiniMax M2
SWE-bench Multilingual61.3% ↗56.5% ↗+4.8 ptDevstral 2
Only Devstral 2 reports · 1
Terminal Bench 232.6% ↗not reported——
Only MiniMax M2 reports · 14
LMArena Elonot reported1343.4 ↗——
AgentCompanynot reported36% ↗——
ArtifactsBenchnot reported66.8% ↗——
BrowseCompnot reported44% ↗——
BrowseComp-zhnot reported48.5% ↗——
FinSearchComp-globalnot reported65.5% ↗——
GAIA (text only)not reported75.7% ↗——
HLE (w/ tools)not reported31.8% ↗——
Multi-SWE-Benchnot reported36.2% ↗——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)not reported25% ↗——
Terminal-Benchnot reported46.3% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported160.6 ↗——
xbench-DeepSearchnot reported72% ↗——
τ²-Benchnot reported77.2% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Devstral 2 minus MiniMax M2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDevstral 2MiniMax M2Edge
Context window256K tokens205K tokensDevstral 2
Max output—128K tokens—
Input price / 1M$0.4 ↗$0.3 ↗MiniMax M2
Output price / 1M$2 ↗$1.2 ↗MiniMax M2
Cached input / 1M—$0.03 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$2.4$1.5MiniMax M2
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-12-092025-10-27—
Cited benchmark scores417—
Reliability

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