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Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

minimax-m2.1-preview 1391.9 minimax-m2.1-preview · 95% interval 1386.8–1397.0 · 17,239 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,429.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.19 – 1,445.76

1354 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,420.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.47 – 1,430.19

3487 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,361.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,350.69 – 1,372.96

2808 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,402.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.95 – 1,409.85

6748 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,367.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,360.59 – 1,374.91

12133 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,430.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.27 – 1,447.00

1192 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,403.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.56 – 1,431.60

446 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,381.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,345.85 – 1,416.21

297 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,410.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.95 – 1,417.06

9317 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,417.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,407.93 – 1,427.71

3561 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,389.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.29 – 1,400.17

3189 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,362.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,352.06 – 1,372.48

3255 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,410.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.49 – 1,426.59

1218 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,416.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,405.50 – 1,427.63

2762 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,419.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.78 – 1,440.12

721 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,386.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.56 – 1,404.13

1182 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,415.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,407.60 – 1,423.37

5771 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,372.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.47 – 1,382.05

4038 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,400.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.48 – 1,408.74

4657 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,286.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,240.07 – 1,333.30

178 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,296.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,261.56 – 1,332.36

285 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,415.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.82 – 1,424.25

4549 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,395.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.00 – 1,413.61

1046 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,396.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,385.23 – 1,407.37

2837 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,377.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.38 – 1,383.85

10491 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,391.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.83 – 1,396.98

17239 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,371.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,346.24 – 1,396.04

529 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,386.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.32 – 1,398.04

2390 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

minimax-m2.1-preview

1,396.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.78 – 1,423.33

490 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
minimax-m2.1-preview
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

minimax-m2.1-preview

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT