Performance Benchmarks for minimax-m3

Analyze how minimax-m3 stacks up against other frontier models in terms of cost-to-performance and raw intelligence (LMArena Elo).

2026 Performance Summary

🚀 Intelligence (Elo): 1448
💰 API Cost (Input): $3e-7 / 1M tokens
⚡ API Cost (Output): $0.0000012 / 1M tokens
⏱️ Real-world Throughput: 24 tokens/s

Analysis: While minimax-m3 is a capable model, it is currently outperformed in efficiency by gpt-5.5. gpt-5.5 sits higher on the Pareto line, offering approximately 28 points more intelligence (Elo) for a comparable or lower API cost.

Highly Recommended Alternatives

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
gpt-5.5	1476	$0.00000125	43.5
glm-5.1	1475	$9.8e-7	25
gemini-3-flash	1473	$5e-7	62
mimo-v2.5-pro	1464	$4.35e-7	29
gemma-4-31b	1451	$1.2e-7	22

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*