Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs MiniMax-M3

Seed 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.2 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 12, 2026. 19 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro

ByteDance Seed

43.2

Rank #96 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 40.2.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 28.4% for Seed 2.0 Pro and 65.1% for MiniMax-M3.
MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
MiniMax-M3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M3 specifications
	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
Provider	ByteDance Seed	MiniMax
Noometry Index	43.2	43.8
Released	2026-02-14	2026-06-01
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	256K	1M
Max output	128K	512K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.50	$0.30
Output $ / M tokens	$3	$1.20
Results tracked	20	41

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Category by category

Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Coding	1472	1469
FrontierCode	—	14.7%
LMArena WebDev	—	1482
SciCode	—	47.1%
ALE-Bench	—	640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents	—	37.7%
OSWorld 2.0	—	4.6%
GBAEval	—	0.9%
Vending-Bench 2	—	2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
NYT Connections (extended)	28.4%	65.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1453	1447
SimpleBench	—	45.8%
CritPt	—	3.7%
Chess Puzzles	—	14%
Thematic Generalization	57.1%	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	8%
DTBench	—	78.9%
LMCA	—	33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench	—	55%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	146.95
ForecastBench	—	61.4

Math Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Math	1439	1429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	71.1%
ProofBench	—	18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert	1440	1461
GPQA Diamond	—	90.9%

Multimodal Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision	1274	1253
LMArena Document	—	1435

Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English	1441	1420
LMArena Chinese	1489	1463
LMArena French	1471	1447
LMArena German	1442	1426
LMArena Japanese	1408	1381
LMArena Korean	1411	1372
LMArena Russian	1449	1428
LMArena Spanish	1460	1432

Instruction Following Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following	1414	1433

Long Context Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query	1428	1445

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Seed 2.0 Pro	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text	1448	1433
LMArena Creative Writing	1406	1404
LMArena Multi-Turn	1441	1442
EQ-Bench 4	—	1150

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than MiniMax-M3?

Seed 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.2 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Pro or MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and MiniMax-M3 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.