Grok 4 vs MiniMax M2
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
xAI · Jul 2025
xAI's mid-2025 flagship, trained on the 200K-GPU Colossus cluster — a math and science reasoning standout of its generation.
MiniMax · Oct 2025
A 10B-active MoE tuned purely for agents and code — striking capability-per-active-parameter at rock-bottom prices.
The verdict
Grok 4 wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for MiniMax M2. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 11x cheaper per blended million tokens. Grok 4 also takes 256K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Benchmark head-to-head 1–0
Specs & pricing
| Grok 4 | MiniMax M2 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 68.9 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 | $0.3 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 | $1.2 |
| Context window | 256K | 205K |
| Max output | — | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (MIT) |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jul 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $52.50 | $4.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Grok 4 or MiniMax M2?
- Grok 4 wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for MiniMax M2. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 11x cheaper per blended million tokens. Grok 4 also takes 256K of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4 or MiniMax M2?
- Grok 4 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, while MiniMax M2 costs $0.3/$1.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $52.50 versus $4.80.
- Which model is better for coding, Grok 4 or MiniMax M2?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.