# Grok 4 vs MiniMax-M3

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 4 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 44.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 60.5% for Grok 4 and 45.8% for MiniMax-M3.
- MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 47.8 | 43.5 |
| Rank | 49 | 81 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)
- MiniMax-M3: 41.5 (#111)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1470 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14.7% |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| SciCode | — | 47.1% |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 640.02 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)
- MiniMax-M3: 22.5 (#121)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| APEX-Agents | — | 37.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 2,158 |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)
- MiniMax-M3: 29.3 (#83)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | 45.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | 14% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1447 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.46 | 147 |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | 61.4 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 65.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 8% |
| DTBench | — | 78.9% |
| LMCA | — | 33.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 55% |

## Math

- Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)
- MiniMax-M3: 39.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1432 |
| ProofBench | — | 18% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)
- MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#32)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | 90.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1462 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)
- MiniMax-M3: 39.5 (#45)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1211 | 1254 |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1435 |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)
- MiniMax-M3: 53.2 (#70)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1428 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1445 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | 1424 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1396 | 1381 |
| LMArena Korean | 1376 | 1372 |
| LMArena Russian | 1409 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1419 | 1431 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)
- MiniMax-M3: 75.7 (#56)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1433 |
| IFEval | 94.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
- MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#68)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1445 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)
- MiniMax-M3: 62.3 (#79)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1412 | 1433 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1405 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1441 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
| WildBench | 79.7% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1150 |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4 better than MiniMax-M3?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4 or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 41.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and MiniMax-M3 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.