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Gemma 2 9B vs MiniMax M2.5

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Winner summary

MiniMax M2.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·MiniMax M2.5
Hype vs Reality
Gemma 2 9B
#225 by perf·#4 by attention
OVERHYPED
MiniMax M2.5
#138 by perf·#13 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
7.5x better value than MiniMax M2.5
Gemma 2 9B
600.0 pts/$
$0.06/M
MiniMax M2.5
79.7 pts/$
$0.61/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.27T·Tier 1
Low risk
minimax logo
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Gemma 2 9BMiniMax M2.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
MiniMax M2.5 leads by +125.8
Gemma 2 9B
1265.0
MiniMax M2.5
1390.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMiniMax M2.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1265.01390.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemma 2 9B$0.03$0.098K tokens (~4 books)$0.45
minimax logoMiniMax M2.5$0.27$0.95205K tokens (~102 books)$4.40