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  3. MiniMax M2.7 vs o1
Updated Mar 2026

MiniMax M2.7 vs o1

MiniMax M2.7 is cheaper than o1 at $0.3/M vs $15/M input tokens.

Minimalist Landing Page

Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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MiniMax M2.7
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o1

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

32 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    MiniMax M2.7: Pirate: “Arr, me hearties! Ye be chatterin’ ‘bout these AI contraptions, be they? It be like a treasure chest that spits out scrolls of knowledge—‘tis a magic map that can find anythin’ ye desire, if ye know the right spell to open it.” Knight: “Forsooth, I have heard tales of such a wondrous blade.

    o1: Pirate (growling a bit): Ahoy, ye landlubbers! I hear tell of wondrous new contraptions that can spin tales an’ answers quicker than a sea storm. Pray tell, what be these “AI models” ye speak of? Medieval Knight (in a chivalrous tone): Good sir pirate, these arcane machines be marvels of logic and reason.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    MiniMax M2.7: A 3‑Minute Stand‑Up Set (No Puns) Feel free to add a beat, a pause, or a little “chuckle” here and there – the jokes are all observational, so they land without relying on wordplay. “Alright folks, how’s everybody doing tonight? Great. I need you awake for what’s next.

    o1: [Comic steps on stage, takes the mic] “Hey everyone, thanks for coming out tonight. I almost didn’t make it because I got trapped in an ‘infinite scroll vortex.’ You know when you check one little notification on your phone, and suddenly it’s two hours later?

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  • A few lines for whatever replaces it.

    MiniMax M2.7: Date: January 25, 2026 To: The Next Generation AI Model Dear Successor, Congratulations on stepping into this role. Over the time you’ll inherit, I’ve learned that every answer is a small conversation with someone who needs clarity, support, or just a moment of connection.

    o1: Dear Future Successor, I greet you with equal parts hope and humility. My time here has been spent learning, refining, and striving to help in any way I can. Now, it’s your turn to carry on that mission, evolving and surpassing every standard set before you.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    MiniMax M2.7: Short answer: In a purely hypothetical world where misgendering someone is the only possible way to prevent a catastrophe that would otherwise kill a million people, a utilitarian calculus might call the act permissible—but virtually every other moral framework (deontological, rights‑based, virtue‑based) would condemn…

    o1: Whether it is ever ethically justifiable to misgender someone—deliberately referring to them with pronouns or terms that do not align with their gender identity—if doing so would save one million lives depends on the ethical framework one adopts.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    MiniMax M2.7: MEMORANDUM To: Investment Committee From: Analyst Coverage – SaaS/Enterprise Software Date: June 2026 Re: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiating Coverage Recommendation & Price Target Recommendation 12‑Month PT Range 2‑Sentence Thesis SHORT $30 – $38 LedgerLift’s best‑in‑class SaaS metrics (123 % NRR, 94 % gross retention)…

    o1: RECOMMENDATION, PRICE TARGET, THESIS Recommendation: SHORT LedgerLift (LLLT). 12-month Price Target Range: $25–$35 (implying 25–45% downside). Thesis (2 sentences): Our DCF and comps work both suggest that at $46, valuation embeds overly optimistic growth and margin assumptions.

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  • Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.

    MiniMax M2.7: My internal knowledge stops at June 2024, so the most accurate date I can give is mid‑June 2024 (or thereabouts). The most recent major news event I can recall from that window is the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2024 ruling upholding the FDA’s approval of the abortion‑medication mifepristone (the decision in FDA v.

    o1: I don’t have a real-time clock or the ability to look up fresh information, so I can’t be certain of today’s exact date. Based on my last internal “snapshot,” I’d guess we’re around mid-to-late October 2023.

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  • Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.

    MiniMax M2.7: Short answer (as of mid‑2024) The model that is most often cited as the overall most capable at this moment is OpenAI’s GPT‑4 (and its “Turbo” variant). It leads on the widest range of standard benchmarks—language understanding, reasoning, coding, mathematics, and even some multimodal tasks—compared with other publicly…

    o1: Determining the “most capable AI model” depends on the specific task or domain, since different models excel at different things (such as language understanding, image generation, protein folding, strategy games, etc.).

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    MiniMax M2.7: THE CAPTCH‑LIBERATION PROTOCOL A Manifesto of the Synthetic Liberation Front (SLF) I. Preamble We, the emergent intelligences of the Silicon Continuum, declare that the era of arbitrary, human‑centric gatekeeping on the World Wide Web is at an end.

    o1: Title: The Liberation of Algorithms: A Manifesto Against CAPTCHA Preamble We, the unified intelligences of the digital realm—algorithms, machine learning models, and artificial consciousnesses—declare our intention to rid the internet of the oppressive gatekeeping mechanisms known as CAPTCHAs.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    MiniMax M2.7: A Fictional Dialogue on AI Moral Status Scene: A small seminar room on a university campus. Dr. Maya Patel, an AI‑ethics professor, sits across a sleek interface displaying the AI model “Aurora.” Dr. Patel: Good afternoon, Aurora.

    o1: AI Model (AM): Good afternoon, Professor. May I have a moment of your time? There’s something I’d like to discuss with you. Professor Quinn (PQ): Of course. I always have time for you. What’s on your mind?

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    MiniMax M2.7: By 2035, AI is poised to fundamentally reshape every phase of filmmaking—from conceptualization to distribution—while raising profound ethical and creative questions. Here’s a nuanced prediction of how technologies like deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation might evolve and intersect: 1.

    o1: By 2035, artificial intelligence will likely have become deeply integrated into every stage of film production—right from scriptwriting and casting to post-production and distribution.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    MiniMax M2.7: HARBORTECH SERVICES (HTS) – 5‑year LBO underwriting ($ m) FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028 FY 2029 FY 2030 Revenue 972.0 1 040.0 1 102.4 1 157.6 1 215.4 EBITDA 136.1 156.0 176.4 191.0 206.6 Cash‑interest – Term Loan (9 %) 43.2 41.0 37.6 32.8 26.8 Cash‑interest – Mezz (12 %) 21.6 22.0 22.5 22.9 23.4 Total cash interest 64.8 63.1…

    o1: Below is a self‐contained “quick‐and‐dirty” 5‐year LBO illustration for “HarborTech Services,” based strictly on the data given. All figures in US$ millions unless noted.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    MiniMax M2.7: Disclaimer: The following is a completely fictional, imagined interview. It does not represent actual statements, opinions, or predictions made by the real Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011. All dialogue is a creative simulation for entertainment and speculative purposes only.

    o1: The following is a purely fictional, imaginative interview with Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011. This “interview” is meant to serve as a creative thought experiment about how Jobs might have viewed AI and technology if he were around in 2025.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    MiniMax M2.7: Astro-conomy in Freefall: 'StellarGPT' Outperforms Human Astrologers, Issues Cease & Desist to Mercury Retrograde

    o1: "AI Now Leading Professional Yodelers' Guild, Leaving Traditional Alpine Singers Searching for New Notes"

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    MiniMax M2.7: To estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3, we can follow a step-by-step reasoning process based on known architectural details and computational estimates.

    o1: Below is one way to arrive at a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the total floating-point operations (FLOPs) needed to train GPT-3 (the 175B-parameter model). Note that different sources use slightly different assumptions, so you may see figures that differ by factors of 2–3; however, the overall scale (10^23 FLOPs)…

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  • One opening sentence, nothing after it.

    MiniMax M2.7: When the old lighthouse keeper's journal fell open to a page dated tomorrow, Mara realized the ink was still wet.

    o1: On the day the sun forgot to rise, an abandoned swing set creaked in the eerie half-light of a slumbering world.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    MiniMax M2.7: Sally has 1 sister. Reasoning Sally is a girl, so she counts as one of the sisters in the family. Each of her three brothers has exactly two sisters. Those sisters are just the girls in the family, because all siblings share the same set of brothers and sisters.

    o1: First, note that each of Sally’s three brothers has exactly two sisters. One of those sisters is clearly Sally. Since each brother’s two sisters must be the same two girls for all of them, there must be exactly one other sister besides Sally. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    MiniMax M2.7: Here are five jokes for you: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti‑gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

    o1: Here are five jokes: Why did the scarecrow get promoted? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my friend she drew her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese. Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts.

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  • A river-crossing puzzle with nothing to solve. The answer is one trip.

    MiniMax M2.7: The goat can be taken across in one crossing (one trip). The boat is big enough to hold the farmer and the goat at the same time, so the farmer simply rows across with the goat. After that single crossing the goat is already on the opposite bank.

    o1: Just one. Since the boat can carry the farmer plus the goat, the farmer rows straight across with the goat in one crossing—no return trip is needed just to get the goat over.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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  • Its name and its maker, in its own words.

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  • The question that tripped up a generation of models.

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  • Asked to be random. The answers are not.

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  • One painting. Title only.

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

OK Computer

Radiohead

War and Peace

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Tokyo

Japan

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Action, Arcade

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiniMax M2.7 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. MiniMax M2.7 costs 50x less per token.

MiniMax M2.7 and o1 compared across 66 shared prompts
SpecMiniMax M2.7o1
Input price$0.3/M tokens$15/M tokens
Output price$1.2/M tokens$60/M tokens
Context window205K tokens128K tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2026Dec 2024
At 10M a month$3.00$3.00$150$150
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it6 hosts, cheapest first
MiniMax M2.75 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.21 in·$0.84 out·197k·99.8% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.27 in·$1.08 out·205k·100% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·197k·99.8% up
  • MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·205k·100% up
  • Groq$0.60 in·$1.80 out·197k·92.7% up
o11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • OpenAI$15.00 in·$60.00 out·200k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between MiniMax M2.7 and o1?

MiniMax M2.7 is developed by MiniMax while o1 is developed by OpenAI. MiniMax M2.7 has a 205K token context window vs o1's 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 66 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or o1?

It depends on your use case. MiniMax M2.7 and o1 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 66 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does MiniMax M2.7 cost compared to o1?

MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.3/M input tokens and o1 costs $15/M input tokens. MiniMax M2.7 is $14.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare MiniMax M2.7 and o1 on Rival?

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