GPT-6 Sol vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash
GPT-6 Sol leads MiniMax M3.1 Flash on coding, 76.0 to 59.0 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs 16.7x less per output token ($0.60 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 18 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-6 Sol or MiniMax M3.1 Flash: which to pick
Pick GPT-6 Sol for coding: it scores 76.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 59.0 for MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
Pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash for output tokens 16.7x cheaper ($0.60 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LiveBench research or Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 18
- GPT-6 Sol only
- 86
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
GPT-6 Sol
GPT-6 Sol scores 76.0 against 59.0.
5 and 4 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-6 Sol
GPT-6 Sol leads, 47.6 against 42.7.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-6 Sol has a Design Arena: websites result, 1293.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only MiniMax M3.1 Flash has a Vals Index result, 53.8%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-6 Sol
GPT-6 Sol takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
GPT-6 Sol $0.0070, MiniMax M3.1 Flash $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-6 Sol 76.0 from 5 benchmarks, MiniMax M3.1 Flash 59.0 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 11.6 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LiveBench long agentic: GPT-6 Sol 66.9% against MiniMax M3.1 Flash 34.7%, 32.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-6 Sol $10.00 against MiniMax M3.1 Flash $0.60 per million output tokens, 16.7x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-6 Sol takes 1.05M tokens, MiniMax M3.1 Flash 1M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-6 Sol | Bars | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 7 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 3 | 1 tie | |
| Reasoning | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 13 | 4 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 93.1% | 83.9% | GPT-6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev | 1683 | 1587 | GPT-6 Sol |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 44.4% | 25.3% | GPT-6 Sol |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 87.8% | 73.9% | GPT-6 Sol |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 57.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 82.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 83.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 78.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| SciCode | 57.6% | 53.4% | GPT-6 Sol |
| FrontierCode | 49.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2462.0 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1448 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1433 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1685 | 1609 | GPT-6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1685 | 1529 | GPT-6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1660 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 47.6 | 42.7 | GPT-6 Sol |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1231 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1237 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1217 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench research | 69.3% | 72.7% | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
| LiveBench browser | 92.0% | 92.0% | Tie |
| LiveBench long agentic | 66.9% | 34.7% | GPT-6 Sol |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 30.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 49.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 15.0% | 32.1% | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 28.9% | 34.1% | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.5% | Only MiniMax M3.1 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 71.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 74.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 30.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Vals Science Index | 45.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| APEX-Agents | 54.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| SpireClimb | 7.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $14,428 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 88.7% | 82.9% | GPT-6 Sol |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 30.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.9% | 48.0% | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 94.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| ARC-AGI | 95.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Chess puzzles | 56.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 56.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| EBR-bench | 53.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1422 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1437 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1420 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1270 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Scale run) | 33.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 89.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 90.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| ProofBench | 83.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1407 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1424 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| MathArena | 80.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 47.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1389 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1366 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1396 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1380 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 72.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| PRBench Legal | 38.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1293 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1291 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1311 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1271 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1314 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1300 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1313 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1222 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench design | 82.2% | 74.0% | GPT-6 Sol |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 53.8% | Only MiniMax M3.1 Flash measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 81.2% | 71.4% | GPT-6 Sol |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 56.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 44.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 82.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.7% | 79.7% | GPT-6 Sol |
| DTBench | 97.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMCA | 59.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Furniture assembly | 58.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text | 1398 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1413 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1378 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1240 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1396 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1388 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1412 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1379 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1377 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1336 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1399 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1387 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1402 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1372 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1414 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1416 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1389 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1373 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1229 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1258 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1219 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-6 Sol | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | MiniMax |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | September 22, 2026 | October 19, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 76.0 | 59.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-6 Sol better than MiniMax M3.1 Flash for coding?
Pick GPT-6 Sol for coding: it scores 76.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 59.0 for MiniMax M3.1 Flash. Pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash for output tokens 16.7x cheaper ($0.60 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LiveBench research or Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Sol or MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
GPT-6 Sol costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-6 Sol or MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
GPT-6 Sol, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-6 Sol vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash comparison based on?
18 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-6 Sol's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3.1 Flash's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.