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Model comparison

MiMo-V2-Pro vs MiniMax-M3

MiMo-V2-Pro and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.0 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2-Pro Xiaomi

43.0

Rank #103 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2-Pro scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 41.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 25.8% for MiMo-V2-Pro and 65.1% for MiniMax-M3.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.43 input and $0.87 output per million tokens.
  • MiMo-V2-Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
ProviderXiaomiMiniMax
Noometry Index43.043.8
Released2026-03-182026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output131K512K
Input $ / M tokens$0.43$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$0.87$1.20
Results tracked2341

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Category by category

Coding MiMo-V2-Pro leads

MiMo-V2-Pro: 43.8 (#83), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev14331482
LMArena Coding14761469
ALE-Bench785.17640.02
FrontierCode—14.7%
SciCode—47.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2-Pro: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

MiMo-V2-Pro: 22.1 (#206), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
NYT Connections (extended)25.8%65.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14571447
SimpleBench—45.8%
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles—14%
Thematic Generalization45.9%—
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

MiMo-V2-Pro: 39.5 (#102), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Math14471429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

MiMo-V2-Pro: 41.4 (#111), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert14781461
GPQA Diamond—90.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

MiMo-V2-Pro: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision—1253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Pro: 52.7 (#81), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14161420
LMArena Chinese14561463
LMArena French14691447
LMArena German14171426
LMArena Japanese13661381
LMArena Korean14001372
LMArena Russian14271428
LMArena Spanish14571432

Instruction Following Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Pro: 76.0 (#49), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14451433

Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads

MiMo-V2-Pro: 41.5 (#138), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14551445
CL-bench15.7%—
CL-bench Life6.9%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Pro: 62.8 (#70), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2-ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14361433
LMArena Creative Writing14151404
LMArena Multi-Turn14561442
EQ-Bench 4—1150

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2-Pro better than MiniMax-M3?

MiMo-V2-Pro and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.0 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2-Pro or MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2-Pro lists at $0.43 and $0.87.

Is MiMo-V2-Pro or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

MiMo-V2-Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.8 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2-Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2-Pro and MiniMax-M3 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2-Pro has 23 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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