TL;DR

MiniMax M3 by MiniMax scores 55 overall, costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, and carries a context window of 1M tokens — observed 2026-10-23.

MiniMax M3

MiniMax · Open Weight · rank 70 · bench-align-v5

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Canonical idminimax-m3

Overall score55

Context window1M tokens

Release date2026-06-01

Access typeOpen Weight

Blended $/1M$0.5275% input / 25% output

Cost per successful task$0.0597LiveBench

Capability shape

Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.

Capability evidence

Agentic59

Coding57.3

Knowledge52.3

Reasoning82

Multimodal & Grounded60

Instruction Following93.8

Runtime service evidence

Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.

Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.

Evidence key: Observed

Runtime measurements
Measurement	Value	Observed	Last good	Evidence
Time to first token	21.12 s	2026-10-23	2026-10-23
Throughput	100 tok/s	2026-10-23	2026-10-23

Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.

Endpoint and price matrix

Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.

Price components
Component	USD	Evidence
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30
Output / 1M tokens	$1.20
Cache read / 1M tokens	$0.06
Cache write / 1M tokens	Unavailable
Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output)	$0.52
Cost per successful task (LiveBench)	$0.0597

Self-hosted listingMiniMax's official API pricing page lists the permanent 50%-off standard rate for MiniMax-M3 at $0.30 input / $0.06 cached input / $1.20 output per million tokens for prompts up to 512K. The 512K-to-1M tier is $0.60 / $0.12 / $2.40; BenchLM stores the standard short-context rate.The rates above are a hosted price matched from another provider, not a first-party list price.

Workload-aware monthly cost example

10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.

Modelled monthly cost$1.48

Modelled tokens2.82M

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Benchmark record

57 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.

Knowledge

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Value	Tasks	Difficulty	Provenance
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	29.2	Cross-benchmark intelligence index	Display-only external reference	Artificial Analysis
AA-GPQA Diamond Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond	92.9	Graduate-level science questions	Graduate-level science reasoning	Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard
AA-HLE Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam	39.0	Expert-level questions	Frontier expert reasoning	Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard

Lifecycle and limitations log

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What this profile does not claimValues are reproduced exactly as their sources published them, in the units those sources declared; none are converted, interpolated, or averaged across providers. Any field marked unavailable was attempted and not returned — the attempt timestamp is in each badge. Last attempted fetch for this model’s score: 2026-10-23 13:17 UTC.

Benchmark	Value	Tasks	Difficulty	Provenance
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Terminal-Bench 2.1	66.0	Terminal-based software-agent tasks	Professional software engineering	Terminal-Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0	66.0	Terminal-based software tasks	Professional software engineering	Terminal-Bench 2.0
SWE-bench Verified Software Engineering Benchmark Verified	80.5	500 verified issues	Professional software engineering	SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
SWE-bench Pro SWE-bench Pro	59	1,865 repository problems	Long-horizon professional engineering	SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?
OpenHarmony Bench OpenHarmony Bench v1.0	48.4	153 app-development and bug-fix tasks	End-to-end OpenHarmony application development	OpenHarmony Bench: Evaluating LLMs and Coding Agents on OpenHarmony App Development
NL2Repo NL2Repo	42.13	Natural language to repository tasks	System-level software comprehension	MiniMax M2.7: Early Echoes of Self-Evolution
AA Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index	58.6	Cross-benchmark coding index	Display-only external reference	Artificial Analysis model leaderboards
AA-SciCode Artificial Analysis SciCode	47.1	Scientific coding subproblems	Scientific programming	Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard
VIBE V2 VIBE V2	50.1	End-to-end coding-agent tasks	Frontier coding-agent workflows	MiniMax M3 model card
SVG-Bench SVG-Bench	63.7	SVG generation and editing tasks	Visual coding and structured graphics generation	MiniMax M3 model card
KernelBench Hard KernelBench Hard	28.8	Hard GPU kernel coding tasks	Specialized systems programming	MiniMax M3 model card
LiveCodeBench (Vals) LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run	82.2	Competitive programming problems (easy, medium, hard)	Frontier coding	Vals AI LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run leaderboard
SWE-bench (Vals) SWE-bench, Vals AI run	75.0	Real repository issues by human time bucket	Frontier coding agents	Vals AI SWE-bench, Vals AI run leaderboard

Benchmark	Value	Tasks	Difficulty	Provenance
AA-LCR Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning	83.0	Long-context reasoning tasks	Long-context reasoning	Artificial Analysis model benchmarks
MLCR-AA Medical Long Context Reasoning (MLCR-AA)	17.2	Long, fragmented medical-record reasoning	Long-context medical reasoning	Medical Long Context Reasoning (MLCR-AA)
CritPt Critical Physics Tasks	3.7	Research-level physics questions	Research-level physics reasoning	CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard

Benchmark	Value	Tasks	Difficulty	Provenance
AA Briefcase Artificial Analysis Briefcase	1090	Professional knowledge-work tasks	Professional work	Artificial Analysis Briefcase Benchmark Leaderboard
AA AutomationBench Artificial Analysis AutomationBench	21.3	Business-process automation tasks	Agentic automation	Artificial Analysis AutomationBench Benchmark Leaderboard
AA EnterpriseOps-Gym Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym	32.1	Enterprise operations workflows	Enterprise agent operations	Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym Benchmark Leaderboard
AA Harvey LAB v1.0 Artificial Analysis Harvey LAB-AA v1.0	88.4	Legal agent tasks	Professional legal work	Artificial Analysis Harvey LAB-AA Benchmark Leaderboard
AA Tau3 Banking Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking	15.3	Banking tool-use workflows	Agentic banking workflows	Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking Benchmark Leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0	66	Terminal-based software tasks	Professional software engineering	Terminal-Bench 2.0
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Terminal-Bench 2.1	66.0	Terminal-based software-agent tasks	Professional software engineering	Terminal-Bench
BrowseComp BrowseComp	83.52	Research questions requiring browsing	Hard web research	BrowseComp
GDPval-AA GDPval-AA	1304	Agentic real-world work tasks	Professional agentic workflows	DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report
GDPval-AA GDPval-AA normalized	37.1	Economically valuable tasks	Professional agentic workflows	Artificial Analysis model benchmarks
AA Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index	30.8	Cross-benchmark agentic index	Display-only external reference	Artificial Analysis model leaderboards
AA Terminal-Bench 4.0 Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0	2.0	Terminal-based agent tasks	Agentic software engineering	Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0 Benchmark Leaderboard
GDP.pdf Artificial Analysis GDP.pdf	9.8	Professional document-production tasks	Professional knowledge work	GDP.pdf Benchmark Leaderboard
AA-AnalystAgent Artificial Analysis AnalystAgent	10.0	Spreadsheet and document analysis questions	Business and data analysis	AA-AnalystAgent Benchmark Leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified OSWorld-Verified	70.06	369 real-world computer tasks (361 when eight Google Drive tasks are excluded)	Multi-step desktop and cross-application workflows	OSWorld
OSWorld 2.0 OSWorld 2.0	4.6	108 long-horizon computer-use workflows	Long-horizon professional workflows	OSWorld2.0: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on Long-Horizon Real-World Tasks
MCP Atlas MCP Atlas	74.2	Tool-integrated agent tasks	Advanced tool use	Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano
τ²-bench results τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation	88.9	Airline, retail, and telecom customer-service task sets	Dual-control customer-service workflows	τ²-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environment
Claw-Eval Claw-Eval	74.5	300 tasks, 2,159 rubrics	Real-world general, multi-turn, and native multimodal agent execution	Claw-Eval: Towards Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents
ResearchClawBench ResearchClawBench	19.8	40 tasks across 10 scientific domains	Scientific research re-discovery	ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research
GDPval rubrics GDPval rubrics	74.7	Economically valuable work tasks	Professional agentic workflows	MiniMax M3 model card
BankerToolBench BankerToolBench	76.1	Finance and banking tool-use tasks	Professional finance-agent workflows	MiniMax M3 model card
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run	53.6	Difficult terminal tasks	Frontier agentic	Vals AI Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run leaderboard
MazeBench MazeBench: visual spatial reasoning in a 3D open world	0	100 hidden gems across 256 rooms in one open world	Long-horizon spatial planning, with single puzzles that can take over one hundred moves	MazeBench Results

Benchmark	Value	Tasks	Difficulty	Provenance
MMMU-Pro Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Pro	78.1	Multimodal academic reasoning	Frontier multimodal	MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
AA-MMMU-Pro Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro	78.6	Multimodal academic reasoning	Frontier multimodal	Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro Benchmark Leaderboard
Design Arena Website Design Arena Website Elo	1258	Website generation comparisons	Design and website generation	OpenRouter Grok 4.3 benchmarks
OfficeQA Pro OfficeQA Pro	45.1	Document and spreadsheet tasks	Enterprise grounded reasoning	OfficeQA Pro: An Enterprise Benchmark for End-to-End Grounded Reasoning
OmniDocBench 1.5 OmniDocBench 1.5	91.6	Document understanding tasks	Grounded document reasoning	Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano
Video-MME (with subtitle) Video-MME with subtitle	85.4	Video understanding	Multimodal video reasoning	Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks
VideoMMMU VideoMMMU	84.6	Video-grounded expert reasoning	Frontier multimodal video reasoning	Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks

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