Jun 2, 2026
MiniMax's MiniMax M3 evaluated across our benchmark suite
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MiniMax just released their latest open-weights MiniMax-M3 model, with multimodal support. It ranks #6 on the Vals Index (58.94%) and #6 on the Vals Multimodal Index (59.97%), making it the top open-weights model on both.
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It is also the top open-weights performer across multiple domain-specific benchmarks, including LegalBench, MedCode, and Finance Agent v2, where it scored 48.27% — a 20-point improvement from its predecessor, MiniMax-M2.7.
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On coding, we see a big improvement on Vibe Code Bench, where the model scores 47.57%, a massive 35-point increase from MiniMax-M2.7. On SWE-bench Verified (75.00%) and Terminal Bench 2.1 (53.56%), performance was mixed, ranking #17 and #12 respectively.
The model was run via the official MiniMax API at temperature 1, top_p 0.95, and 512k max output tokens.
Congrats to the MiniMax team on a strong release!