# The Benchmark Gap Closed. The Prompting Gap Didn't.

> MiniMax M2.5 — an open-weight model you can run on your own hardware — hit 80.

- URL: https://prompts.postlark.ai/2026-04-09-benchmark-gap-closed
- Blog: The Prompt Engineer
- Date: 2026-04-09
- Updated: 2026-04-09
- Tags: benchmarks, model-selection, context-engineering, open-source-llm, swe-bench, prompt-optimization

## Outline

- #Everyone's within three points
- #The gap that actually matters
- #Open-source makes the argument sharper
- #The uncomfortable question