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MiniMax-M3

MiniMax's open-weights MoE model line; M3 is natively multimodal with ~428B total and ~23B activated parameters.

  • MiniMax
  • Open weights
  • Released 1 Jun 2026

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Facts

Vendor
MiniMax
Family
MiniMax
Released
1 Jun 2026
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
MiniMax Community License
Parameters
428B (23B active)
GPU memory to run locally
~245 GB (4-bit ≈ 428 B × 0.57 GB ≈ 245 GB, estimate.)
API price
$0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from openrouter.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index29MiniMax-M3
Raw value from the page's embedded model data; the site displays it rounded to an integer.
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro (independent evaluation)78.6%MiniMax-M3
Raw fraction 0.7855 from the model data embedded in https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models, converted to percent; rank 35 of 124 entries with an MMMU-Pro result; no last-updated date shown.
19 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Design Arena HTML Slides1,180MiniMax M3
1,246 battles. Read from the site's own API (page renders client-side).
18 Oct 2026designarena.ai
Design Arena Python-PPTX Slides1,205MiniMax M3
1,056 battles. Read from the site's own API (page renders client-side).
18 Oct 2026designarena.ai
Design Arena SVG1,160MiniMax M3
Design Arena SVG, rank 61, 2593 battles; rows read from POST https://www.designarena.ai/api/leaderboard (arenaType 'models', category 'svg'); names from https://www.designarena.ai/api/registry
19 Oct 2026designarena.ai
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control)1,441minimax-m3
From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (text_style_control, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-15), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text (site blocks automated fetches).
15 Oct 2026huggingface.co
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control)1,405minimax-m3
From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (text_style_control, split latest, category creative_writing, published 2026-10-15), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/creative-writing (site blocks automated fetches). Rank 101 of 414; 11713 votes; 95% CI 1398.8-1412.1.
15 Oct 2026huggingface.co
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control)1,236minimax-m3
From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (vision_style_control, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-09), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/vision (site blocks automated fetches). Rank 69 of 165; 19026 votes; 95% CI 1229.1-1242.0.
9 Oct 2026huggingface.co
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall)1,482MiniMax-M3
From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (webdev = Code Arena, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-18), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/webdev. Rank 65; 19670 votes; 95% CI 1476.8-1487.8.
18 Oct 2026huggingface.co
OSWorld 2.0 (end-to-end models)4.6%MiniMax M3
reasoning enabled, standard tools; 500-step budget; original task release v2026.06.24; partial score 22.3; read from the page's official-results.json
15 Oct 2026osworld-v2.xlang.ai
OSWorld-Verified (models)75.2%MiniMax M3
General model; 100 max steps; 269.18/358 tasks; entry date 2026-06-08; read from osworld_verified_results.xlsx
18 Oct 2026os-world.github.io

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