Model comparison
MiniMax M1 vs Step 3
MiniMax M1 and Step 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
StepFunSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 1 category and Step 3 in 7 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| MiniMax M1 | Step 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | StepFun |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 40.5 |
| Released | 2025-06-13 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.55 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), Step 3: 40.1 (#147)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1359 | 1367 |
Reasoning Step 3 leads
MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), Step 3: 28.4 (#105)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1339 | 1355 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 62.3% |
Math Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), Step 3: 37.6 (#148)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1361 | 1366 |
Knowledge Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), Step 3: 36.8 (#164)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1317 | 1333 |
Multimodal Not comparable
MiniMax M1: —, Step 3: 35.5 (#86)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1177 |
Multilingual Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), Step 3: 46.3 (#159)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1319 | 1327 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1360 | 1397 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1371 |
| LMArena Korean | 1266 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1329 | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1353 | 1371 |
| LMArena French | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1217 | — |
Instruction Following Step 3 leads
MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), Step 3: 70.4 (#164)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1312 | 1332 |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), Step 3: 40.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1326 | 1326 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Step 3 leads
MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), Step 3: 54.3 (#151)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1343 | 1350 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1298 | 1321 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1335 | 1341 |
Frequently asked questions
Is MiniMax M1 better than Step 3?
MiniMax M1 and Step 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is MiniMax M1 or Step 3 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (39.9 vs 40.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Step 3 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Step 3 has 17.