VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Minimax M2 5 state of the art?
It used to be.Was SOTA in Coding › Web dev.
As of Oct 14, 2026, Minimax M2 5 from minimax. Was SOTA in Coding › Web dev. Last listed at #36 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2026-02-12. That board does not award a crown.
General LLM#126 in this category#126 · 0dGeneral LLM · pareto#164 in this category#164 · 0dReasoning#118 in this category#118 · 0dReasoning · pareto#155 in this category#155 · 0dMathNot enough dataINSUFFICIENT_DATA · 0dCodingNot enough dataINSUFFICIENT_DATA · 0dCoding › Web dev#75 in this category#75 · 0dCoding › Web dev · pareto#85 in this category#85 · 0dLong context#114 in this category#114 · 0dLong context · pareto#152 in this category#152 · 0d
Why
The ruling, in plain English
Ranked #126 in General LLM.
Receipts
Evidence
| Source | Score | Date | Type | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall) minimax-m2.5 | 1390.7032387824852 1386.8–1394.6 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) minimax-m2.5 | 1417.534139092645 1412.7–1422.3 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, math) minimax-m2.5 | 1392.6025045714628 1380.9–1404.4 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding) minimax-m2.5 | 1446.3047058016725 1439.9–1452.7 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena WebDev minimax-m2.5 | 1385.8073099567891 1377.5–1394.1 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_c2cbd1c7f35e |
| LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query) minimax-m2.5 | 1405.00200851253 1399.2–1410.8 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_7d2d37f2ecb4 |
| LMArena Text factuality minimax-m2.5 | 1385.6375299695133 1382.1–1389.1 | 2026-10-13 | INDEP. | snap_af980e7d8ae9 |
| ARC-AGI MiniMax-M2.5 | 0.6367 | 2026-02-12 | INDEP. | snap_fee7890b5dd0 |
Reign history
Where it sits in the succession
No closed or open crown interval includes this model.
Honest about the gaps
Where it is not the crown
| Category | This model | Why |
|---|---|---|
| General LLM | #126 in this category | Ranked #126 in General LLM. |
| Reasoning | #118 in this category | Ranked #118 in Reasoning. |
| Math | Not enough data | #117 on LMArena Text (style-controlled, math); missing Humanity's Last Exam and FrontierMath |
| Coding | Not enough data | #114 on LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding); missing Terminal-Bench 4.0 and SWE-bench Pro V2 HARD |
| Coding › Web dev | #75 in this category | Ranked #75 in Coding › Web dev. |
| Long context | #114 in this category | Ranked #114 in Long context. |
| Factuality | #112 in this category | Ranked #112 in Factuality. |
| Abstraction (ARC) | #36 in this category | Last listed at #36 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2026-02-12. That board does not award a crown. |