Model comparison
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 vs MiniMax-M3
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M3 in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 39.2.
- MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 43.8 |
| Released | — | 2026-06-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 512K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 42.2 (#110), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1430 | 1469 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| SciCode | — | 47.1% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 640.02 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 37.7% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 2,158 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 29.3 (#94), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1427 | 1447 |
| SimpleBench | — | 45.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 65.1% |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 14% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 8% |
| DTBench | — | 78.9% |
| LMCA | — | 33.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.95 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.4 |
Math MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 38.9 (#124), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1419 | 1429 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 71.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 18% |
Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 39.2 (#136), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1461 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1253 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1435 |
Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 51.4 (#108), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1398 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1440 | 1463 |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | 1428 |
| LMArena French | — | 1447 |
| LMArena German | — | 1426 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1381 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1432 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 73.2 (#123), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1433 |
Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 42.4 (#125), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1391 | 1445 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10: 59.5 (#110), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1420 | 1433 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1350 | 1404 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1409 | 1442 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1150 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 better than MiniMax-M3?
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (42.2 vs 41.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 and MiniMax-M3 share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 has 12 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.