MiniMax M1 80K vs o3
Wins 1 of 6 areas
Agents
Wins 4 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Facts · Following instructions
o3 is the stronger all-rounder.MiniMax M1 80K is cheaper and better at agents.
Scores updated · 30 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software03o33 of 3 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking03o33 of 3 tests
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up02o32 of 2 tests
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked02o32 of 2 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own10MiniMax M1 80K1 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts11Even1 each
Agents rests on a single test.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
MiniMax M1 80K costs 73% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where o3 pulls ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+34.1points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+29.6points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+17points ahead
Where MiniMax M1 80K pulls ahead
- Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+11.9points ahead
- Questions about very long textsLongBench v2+2.7points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 30 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
Codingo3
- Terminal-Bench Hardo3 by 34.1337.1+34.1
- SWE-bench Verifiedo3 by 13.15669.1+13.1
- SciCodeo3 by 3.637.441+3.6
Reasoningo3
- GPQA Diamondo3 by 1369.782.7+13
- Humanity's Last Examo3 by 11.28.920.1+11.2
- CritPto3 by 1.101.1+1.1
Factso3
- AA-Omniscience · Accuracyo3 by 16.122.538.6+16.1
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationo3 by 3.48.511.9+3.4
Long documentsEven
- AA-LCRo3 by 1757.774.7+17
- LongBench v2MiniMax M1 80K by 2.761.558.8+2.7
Following instructionso3
- IFBencho3 by 29.641.871.4+29.6
- Multi-Challengeo3 by 15.744.760.4+15.7
Other results17 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)o3 by 46.534.280.7+46.5
- AA-Omniscienceo3 by 33-48.5-15.6+33
- SimpleQAo3 by 30.918.549.4+30.9
- Artificial Analysis Coding Indexo3 by 23.914.538.4+23.9
- LiveCodeBencho3 by 19.76584.7+19.7
- OpenAI-MRCR (128k)MiniMax M1 80K by 16.973.456.5+16.9
- LiveCodeBench (24/8~25/5)o3 by 10.86575.8+10.8
- TAU-bench (retail)o3 by 10.463.573.9+10.4
- TAU-bench (airline)MiniMax M1 80K by 106252+10
- AIME 2025o3 by 9.576.986.4+9.5
- ZebraLogico3 by 986.895.8+9
- AA Intelligenceo3 by 8.511.720.2+8.5
- AA Agentic Indexo3 by 729.136.1+7
- AIME 2024o3 by 5.68691.6+5.6
- MMLU-Proo3 by 3.981.185+3.9
- MATH-500 (EM)o3 by 1.396.898.1+1.3
- FullStackBencho3 by 168.369.3+1
Questions people ask
Which is better, MiniMax M1 80K or o3?
o3 wins four of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, facts and following instructions. MiniMax M1 80K wins agents, and costs 73% less. They are level on long documents.
Which is better for coding?
o3. It wins 3 of the 3 coding tests both models report; MiniMax M1 80K wins none.
Which is cheaper?
MiniMax M1 80K costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; o3 costs $2.00 and $8.00. That makes MiniMax M1 80K about 73% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 30 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 13 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 17 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.