GPT-Image-2.5 (Sunburst) vs MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

A direct, empirical evaluation of GPT-Image-2.5 (Sunburst) (OpenAI) against MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax).

GPT-Image-2.5 (Sunburst)

Developed by OpenAI · Proprietary Multimodal DiT parameters

High-fidelity typographic rendering, raytracing reflection accuracy, sketch-to-image conditioning, and localized comment inpainting.

MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

Developed by MiniMax · Proprietary Sparse Coding MoE parameters

Low-latency interactive IDE code completions at 165 tokens/sec, SWE-bench Verified bug fixes (73.8%), terminal automation, and budget-optimized pull request reviews.

Metric GPT-Image-2.5 (Sunburst) MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
SWE-bench Verified 62.4% 73.8%
MMLU-Pro 89.5% 81.2%
MATH-500 91.2% 92.4%
Context Window Spatial Vector Token Canvas (1792×1024) 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $2.50 $0.10
Output Pricing (per 1M) $10.00 $0.40