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MiniMax-M3

MiniMaxReleased 1 Jun 2026OpenDate verified
145133–157Index score#72 of 229 models
2/ 8Core tests taken2 of 6 areas · plus 10 anchor tests
−32Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.5
$0.30/ $1.2Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o3 reached this score 14 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
91%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
38%
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released1 Jun 2026
Announcementhuggingface.co ↗
Release entryMiniMax-M3
Scored asMiniMax-M3
Artificial Analysis index29
Output speed95 tokens/s

MiniMax releasesaround this one