Model comparison

MiniMax-M3 vs Mistral Medium

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 28 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Mistral Medium

Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M3 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 25.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for MiniMax-M3 and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
MiniMax-M3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

MiniMax-M3 and Mistral Medium specifications
	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	43.8	36.3
Released	2026-06-01	2023-12-11
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	1M	262K
Max output	512K	262K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$1.20	$7.50
Results tracked	41	36

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
FrontierCode	14.7%	8%
SciCode	47.1%	40.2%
LMArena Coding	1469	1434
ALE-Bench	640.02	763.98
LMArena WebDev	1482	—
WeirdML	—	43.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Medium leads

MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
APEX-Agents	37.7%	—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	37.7%
OSWorld 2.0	4.6%	—
GBAEval	0.9%	—
Vending-Bench 2	2,158	—

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
CritPt	3.7%	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1447	1426
DTBench	78.9%	75.5%
LMCA	33.7%	26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench	55%	26.9%
SimpleBench	45.8%	—
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	50%
NYT Connections (extended)	65.1%	—
Chess Puzzles	14%	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	8%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	146.95	—
ForecastBench	61.4	—

Math MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	71.1%	32.2%
ProofBench	18%	9%
LMArena Math	1429	1408
MATH Level 5	—	81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0.3%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
GPQA Diamond	90.9%	59.5%
LMArena Expert	1461	1408
Humanity's Last Exam	—	4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	22.7%

Multimodal MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision	1253	1172
LMArena Document	1435	—

Multilingual Too close to call

MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English	1420	1408
LMArena Chinese	1463	1447
LMArena French	1447	1459
LMArena German	1426	1432
LMArena Japanese	1381	1378
LMArena Korean	1372	1380
LMArena Russian	1428	1411
LMArena Spanish	1432	1433

Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following	1433	1398

Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query	1445	1406

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Text	1433	1424
LMArena Creative Writing	1404	1391
LMArena Multi-Turn	1442	1418
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	77.3%
EQ-Bench 4	1150	—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M3 better than Mistral Medium?

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M3 or Mistral Medium?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is MiniMax-M3 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M3 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M3 and Mistral Medium share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M3 has 41 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.