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MiniMax M2.7 vs GLM 5

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 5 wins 8 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · coding · reasoning.

Category leads
arena·GLM 5coding·GLM 5reasoning·GLM 5language·MiniMax M2.7math·GLM 5knowledge·GLM 5
Hype vs Reality
MiniMax M2.7
#32 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GLM 5
#55 by perf·#27 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
1.9x better value than GLM 5
MiniMax M2.7
84.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
GLM 5
45.7 pts/$
$1.26/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
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MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
MiniMax M2.7GLM 5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
GLM 5 leads by +13.3
MiniMax M2.7
1427.7
GLM 5
1441.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 5 leads by +52.5
MiniMax M2.7
1403.0
GLM 5
1455.6
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
GLM 5 leads by +5.0
MiniMax M2.7
50.0
GLM 5
55.0
LiveBench · Coding
GLM 5 leads by +18.7
MiniMax M2.7
54.9
GLM 5
73.6
LiveBench · Data Analysis
GLM 5 leads by +11.6
MiniMax M2.7
56.3
GLM 5
67.9
LiveBench · If
MiniMax M2.7 leads by +5.8
MiniMax M2.7
61.1
GLM 5
55.3
LiveBench · Language
GLM 5 leads by +10.8
MiniMax M2.7
66.8
GLM 5
77.5
LiveBench · Mathematics
GLM 5 leads by +2.9
MiniMax M2.7
80.5
GLM 5
83.5
LiveBench · Overall
GLM 5 leads by +5.3
MiniMax M2.7
63.5
GLM 5
68.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
MiniMax M2.7 leads by +5.7
MiniMax M2.7
74.8
GLM 5
69.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.7GLM 5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1427.71441.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1403.01455.6
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
50.055.0
LiveBench · Coding
54.973.6
LiveBench · Data Analysis
56.367.9
LiveBench · If
61.155.3
LiveBench · Language
66.877.5
LiveBench · Mathematics
80.583.5
LiveBench · Overall
63.568.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
74.869.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
minimax logoMiniMax M2.7$0.30$1.20197K tokens (~98 books)$5.25
z-ai logoGLM 5$0.60$1.92203K tokens (~101 books)$9.30