Benchmark Almanac

MEWC

MiniMax-M2.5 74.4% Fading

Models solve 179 Microsoft Excel World Championship problems from 2021 to 2026 with Excel tools. Output cells are compared one by one with answer cells.

In-house MiniMax benchmark built from Excel esports problems, and the task set is not released.

Made by MiniMax Released Feb 2026 Documents and spreadsheets Tasks kept private Last in a launch post Feb 2026 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Feb 2026
Level
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

MiniMax-M2.5 leads with 74.4%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 MiniMax-M2.5 74.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 MiniMax-M2.5 74.4% Feb 2026 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) MiniMax-M2.5 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) MiniMax-M2.5

Labs headline it less often now, last in Feb 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

MiniMax
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
12 Feb 2026 MiniMax-M2.5 74.4 MEWC

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