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Model comparison

Command A vs MiniMax-M3

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M3 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 37.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 10.3% for Command A and 33.7% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • MiniMax-M3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command AMiniMax-M3
ProviderCohereMiniMax
Noometry Index36.543.8
Released2025-03-132026-06-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K1M
Max output8K512K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Results tracked2441

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Coding13301469
FrontierCode—14.7%
Aider Polyglot12%—
LMArena WebDev—1482
SciCode—47.1%
ALE-Bench—640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Hard Prompts13261447
DTBench61.3%78.9%
LMCA10.3%33.7%
SimpleBench—45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—65.1%
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles—14%
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.95
ForecastBench—61.4

Math MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Math13001429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert12951461
GPQA Diamond—90.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision—1253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English13131420
LMArena Chinese13271463
LMArena French13511447
LMArena German13411426
LMArena Japanese12851381
LMArena Korean12851372
LMArena Russian13141428
LMArena Spanish13471432

Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following13091433

Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query13341445

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkCommand AMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text13311433
LMArena Creative Writing13191404
LMArena Multi-Turn13391442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—
EQ-Bench 4—1150

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M3 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and MiniMax-M3 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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