MiniMax claims that in complex, productivity-oriented scenarios, M1’s capabilities are top-tier among open-source models.
The company also says it beats domestic closed-source models and comes close to the best overseas models while providing the industry’s best cost-effectiveness.
On various benchmarks (AIME 2024, LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench Verified, Tau-bench, and MRCR), M1 is competitive with OpenAI o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus, DeepSeek R1, DeepSeek R1-0528, and Qwen3-235B to varying degrees.