MiniMax M3 scores 29.1 on the Respan Index (#65), ahead of Claude Opus 4.1 at 29.0 (#67). MiniMax M3 leads on 5 of the 8 benchmarks both report. MiniMax M3 is 57x cheaper per token at list price. MiniMax M3 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
* Estimated: no published scores in that category. How the Respan Index works
| 31.4% |
| 50.6% |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 60% | 45.8% |
| LMArena Elo | 1450 | 1434 |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1389 | 1482 |
Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.