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MiniMax-M3

MiniMax language model.

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#48

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59.6 pts behind #1

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Released: Jun 1, 2026; 5 mo ago
Context: 1.05M; 512K max output
Price: $0.3 / $1.2; per 1M in/out · $0.52 blended · OpenRouter
Speed: 100 tok/s; 0.74s to first token (AA)
Modalities: text · image · video; outputs text
Weights: Open; self-hostable

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MiniMax language model.

Key takeaways

1MiniMax language model.

Where it ranks

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M3Best on each axis

Overall

48Overall+59.6 pts

Coding

42Coding+82.8 pts 46Frontend & UI+325 Elo 42Coding Q&A+75 Elo 46React Web Apps+377 Elo 37Agentic Coding+29.9 pts 41Terminal & DevOps+61.6 pts

Hard Reasoning

40Hard Reasoning+66.4 pts 41Frontier Questions+22.4 pts 30Common-Sense Reasoning+36.1 pts

Math

48Math+72.2 pts 52Competition Math+28.9 pts 47Math Chat+107 Elo

Science

47Science+62.4 pts 26Graduate Science QA+5.5 pts 44Medicine & Health+112 Elo 43Scientific Coding+19.8 pts 42Science Q&A+95 Elo

Writing & Language

45Writing & Language+66.1 pts 47Creative Writing+129 Elo 45Professional Writing+114 Elo 47Multilingual+102 Elo 45Instruction Following+103 Elo 46Conversation+113 Elo

Multimodal

38Multimodal+74.4 pts 36Image Understanding+74 Elo 23Documents & Charts+82 Elo

Tool Use & Agents

26Tool Use & Agents+86.6 pts 33Tool Use+36.0 pts 8Computer Use+26.8 pts

Long Context

16Long Context+19.6 pts 16Long-Document Reasoning+5.7 pts

Speed & Cost

7Speed & Cost+25.7 pts 14Output Speed+290 tok/s 9Time to First Token+0.25s 10Intelligence per Dollar+577.8 pts

Overall Intelligence over time

#1 frontierM3K2.6Large 4

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