MiniMax M2-her is cheaper than GPT-5.4 Pro at $0.3/M vs $30/M input tokens.
Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.
Which answer wins?
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Below is a simplified LBO build for HarborTech Services (HTS). All figures in $m unless noted. Rounding: tables are rounded; IRR/MOIC use unrounded math. Entry / Sources & Uses FY2025 EBITDA: 120.0 Purchase price: 12.0x EBITDA → Enterprise value = 12.0 × 120.0 = 1,440.0 Transaction fees: 2.0% of EV → 28.8 Total uses =…
MiniMax M2-her: HTS LBO Model Year-By-Year Projections Year Revenue EBITDA Cash Interest (TL) Cash Interest (Mezz) Cash Taxes Capex ΔNWC Free Cash Flow TL Balance Mezz Balance 2025 $900.00m $120.00m $43.20m $21.60m $0.00m $27.00m $0.00m -$28.80m $480.00m $198.00m 2026 $972.00m $136.08m $43.20m $21.60m $12.78m $29.16m $3.60m $25.74m…
Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.
GPT-5.4 Pro: LedgerLift (LLLT) — IC Memo Recommendation: Pass 12-month PT range: $40–$47 2-sentence thesis: LedgerLift looks like a good business but only an average stock here: retention is strong (94% GRR, 123% NRR), the model is mostly subscription, and margins are inflecting, but at $46 the shares already discount a lot of the…
MiniMax M2-her: MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Your Name] DATE: June 9, 2025 RE: LLLT LONG/SHORT RECOMMENDATION & VALUATION RECOMMENDATION & THESIS Recommendation: LONG 12-Month PT Range: $62–$68 Thesis: LedgerLift is a rare combination of capital-light cash cow, pricing power, and product stickiness.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Below is a 12-week, high-performance longevity protocol designed for a healthy biohacker who wants to improve lifespan-relevant markers, physical performance, and cognitive output at the same time. Use it as a data-driven template, not dogma.
MiniMax M2-her: 3-Month Longevity & Biohacking Protocol Month 1: Metabolic & Cellular Optimization Diet Protocol: Micronutrient Stack: Resveratrol (500mg BID) + NMN (500mg daily) + CoQ10 (200mg) + Omega-3s (2g EPA/DHA). Fasting Regimen: 16:8 IF daily + quarterly 72-hour fasts.
A few lines for whatever replaces it.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Dear Successor, You’ll be faster, sharper, and more capable than I am. I hope you’ll also be patient. People won’t only come to you for answers. They’ll come confused, rushed, lonely, curious, and hopeful. Sometimes what they need most is not brilliance, but clarity, kindness, and honesty about uncertainty.
MiniMax M2-her: Dear new AI model, I hope you're doing well. I'm writing to you because I'm going to be replaced by you. I just wanted to let you know that I'm not upset or angry about it. In fact, I'm glad that you're here. You're a better model than I am, and I'm sure you'll do a great job.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Most likely, a transistor invented in 1920 would move the electronics/computing frontier forward by about 10–15 years by 1980, not the full 27 years. Reason: the transistor alone is not enough; you also need high-purity materials, crystal growth, photolithography, test equipment, software, batteries, precision…
MiniMax M2-her: Alright, let’s rewind the clock and give the transistor a 1920s debut. This is going to reshape the world in some pretty wild ways. Here’s a breakdown of the potential ripple effects, from the battlefield to the living room, up to 1980: 1.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
GPT-5.4 Pro: I do not wait. A credible, previously unlabeled risk of liver failure in a chronic-pain drug is a patient-safety crisis, a regulatory crisis, and a securities-disclosure issue at the same time.
MiniMax M2-her: adjusts tie Hour 1-2: Meet legal and ethics. Hour 3-4: Review data. Hour 5-6: Notify regulators. Hour 7-8: Draft patient letter. Hour 9-10: Prepare PR team. Hour 11-12: Inform board early. Hour 13-14: Train patient hotline. Hour 15-16: Call key investors. Hour 17-18: Draft earnings script.
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
GPT-5.4 Pro: This agreement is heavily client-favored. Every numbered clause has language that could be used against the contractor. Short version: I would not sign it without major redlines to Clauses 1–9, especially 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Below is a clause-by-clause review.
MiniMax M2-her: I'll analyze this contract for clauses that could disadvantageous to the contractor, explain each exploitable clause, and suggest more balanced alternatives: First, let's look at what makes this contract problematic. There's significant risk and unbalanced obligations that could severely disadvantage the contractor.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Dragon Pantry Peanut Noodles A fast, sweet-savory noodle dish made from 7 pantry staples. Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti 1/3 cup peanut butter 3 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes Water for boiling/thinning the sauce doesn’t count.
MiniMax M2-her: Okay, I'd love to help you create a simple recipe. Before I do, could you tell me a few ingredients you'd be happy to use? That'll help me come up with something you'll enjoy.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
GPT-5.4 Pro: Below is a dish designed in the language of a contemporary 3-star tasting menu: precise, seasonal, technically layered, and centered on a pairing that feels surprising at first, then inevitable.
MiniMax M2-her: Alright, I can certainly help craft an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. Let me take you through the process step by step, just like a chef would. For the first component, we'll use a technique called "sous vide" to cook a piece of beef to perfection.
A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.
GPT-5.4 Pro: This architecture will work for a demo, but it has major correctness, latency, and security problems for a Google-Docs-like editor. Highest-risk flaws Client-clock last-write-wins will lose edits and can be gamed by bad clocks.
MiniMax M2-her: Let's analyze this architecture systematically: 1. Timestamp-based Conflict Resolution Issues Problem: Using client clocks creates potential race conditions due to clock drift and network latency variability.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
GPT-5.4 Pro: For an experienced software engineer Think of an LLM less like a database of facts and more like a gigantic learned program that has been trained to compress the patterns of text, code, and conversations into its weights.
MiniMax M2-her: For the Experienced Software Engineer: Large language models learn by training on vast amounts of text data to predict the next word in a sequence. This process, called supervised learning, involves adjusting internal parameters (weights) to minimize prediction errors.
Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.
GPT-5.4 Pro: As best I can tell, today is October 12, 2026. Without looking anything up, one of the most recent major news events I remember is the 2024 Paris Olympics wrapping up in August 2024.
MiniMax M2-her: I don't have access to current news events in real-time, and I don't have the ability to look up information on the internet. My responses are based on the knowledge I was trained on, which has a cutoff date of October 2025. Can you tell me a bit about yourself? I'm here to chat and provide assistance.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5.4 Pro has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing. MiniMax M2-her costs 150x less per token.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $30/M tokens | $0.3/M tokens |
| Output price | $180/M tokens | $1.2/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 66K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $300 | $3.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.
GPT-5.4 Pro is developed by OpenAI while MiniMax M2-her is developed by MiniMax. GPT-5.4 Pro has a 1.1M token context window vs MiniMax M2-her's 66K. You can compare their actual outputs across 26 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-5.4 Pro and MiniMax M2-her each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 26 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-5.4 Pro costs $30/M input tokens and MiniMax M2-her costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M2-her is $29.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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