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Grok 4.7 vs MiniMax M3

Grok 4.7 leads MiniMax M3 on coding, 66.7 to 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M3 costs 5.0x less per output token ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 82 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Grok 4.7 Replace MiniMax M3
Grok 4.7xAI
Coding
66.7
Overall
66.6
Output $/M
$6.00
45
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
37
vs boards won of 82 shared

Grok 4.7 or MiniMax M3: which to pick

Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 5 benchmarks against 6.

Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).

Model AGrok 4.7xAI66.7/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
Shared results
82
Grok 4.7 only
17
MiniMax M3 only
34
Like-for-like categories
8 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.

At a glance

Coding index
Grok 4.7 66.7 from 5 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 25.7 points apart on average over 9 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vending-Bench 2: Grok 4.7 $10,537 against MiniMax M3 $2,158, 52.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.7 $6.00 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 5.0x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.7 takes 500K tokens, MiniMax M3 1.05M.

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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGrok 4.7BarsMiniMax M3Ties
Coding132
Intelligence20
Agentic work90
Reasoning64
Math22
Knowledge15
Web design61
General623
All shared boards4537
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index132
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench coding84.5%70.9%Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev16371482Grok 4.7
AA Coding IndexNot measured58.6Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured82.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured75.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)28.8%1.0%Grok 4.7
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)86.2%47.6%Grok 4.7
Code migration (Vals AI)44.8%19.9%Grok 4.7
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
IOI (Vals AI)57.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)73.4%53.6%Grok 4.7
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)42.9%33.3%Grok 4.7
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured9.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only MiniMax M3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)69.5%65.0%Grok 4.7
SciCode57.8%47.1%Grok 4.7
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured42.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
FrontierCode47.6%14.7%Grok 4.7
FrontierSWE29.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured640.0Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: coding14321470MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: software and IT14211466MiniMax M3
LMArena WebDev: React16631478Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev: HTML16271455Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev: from an image15861470Grok 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
AA Intelligence Index46.429.2Grok 4.7
Epoch Capabilities Index154.4146.9Grok 4.7
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured29.5Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1200Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1169Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1159Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1158Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1130Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1181Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1028Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench research86.4%68.0%Grok 4.7
LiveBench browser60.0%8.0%Grok 4.7
LiveBench long agentic50.1%12.4%Grok 4.7
SREBench (Vals AI)3.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)52.3%48.3%Grok 4.7
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)34.2%20.6%Grok 4.7
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)47.1%29.8%Grok 4.7
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)18.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)67.0%47.8%Grok 4.7
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)69.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)10.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Vals Science Index34.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Robo-bench (Vals AI)0.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured88.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
APEX-Agents54.6%37.7%Grok 4.7
OSWorld 2.0Not measured4.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$10,537$2,158Grok 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index64
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured92.7%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench reasoning82.7%74.5%Grok 4.7
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)25.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured81.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured92.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)43.1%39.0%Grok 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)92.7%90.9%Grok 4.7
ARC-AGI90.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ARC-AGI-261.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
SimpleBenchNot measured45.8%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Chess puzzles41.0%13.0%Grok 4.7
Mystery game puzzles29.0%8.0%Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: hard prompts14151447MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: expert14391461MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14271455MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: diagrams12541266MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: homework13091268Grok 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
OTIS Mock AIME98.1%71.1%Grok 4.7
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 353.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
FrontierMath, tier 417.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ProofBench26.0%18.0%Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: math14141429MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: mathematical work14351448MiniMax M3
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
MMLU ProNot measured84.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.4%85.4%MiniMax M3
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured68.1%Only MiniMax M3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured72.7%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured68.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.5%46.3%Grok 4.7
SimpleQA Verified56.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: science14191452MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13951441MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: legal and government14231437MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: business and finance13891434MiniMax M3
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index61
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
Design Arena: websites12551257MiniMax M3
Design Arena: UI components12751242Grok 4.7
Design Arena: game dev13141210Grok 4.7
Design Arena: data viz12381236Grok 4.7
Design Arena: 3D12741208Grok 4.7
Design Arena: all code categories12731247Grok 4.7
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1161Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1161Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench design78.0%66.2%Grok 4.7
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index623
General benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
Vals Index58.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LiveBench data analysis76.9%76.2%Grok 4.7
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)65.6%64.1%Grok 4.7
SAGE (Vals AI)40.8%50.6%MiniMax M3
MedScribe (Vals AI)89.4%87.3%Grok 4.7
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured60.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
IFBenchNot measured82.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)80.0%83.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench96.0%78.9%Grok 4.7
LMCA49.4%33.7%Grok 4.7
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured55.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Furniture assembly20.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Text13991433MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: instruction following14061433MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: creative writing13811404MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision12311251MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: English14111443MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: non-English13861420MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Chinese14491466MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: German13661428MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Japanese13591380MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Korean13831373Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: French14311444MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Spanish14061433MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Russian13991426MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Polish14201423MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: multi-turn13941443MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: longer queries14161446MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: writing and language13941419MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13761403MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: English12291263MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: Chinese12501311MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: reading text12411259MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1235Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12171234MiniMax M3
LMArena DocumentNot measured1435Only MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGrok 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
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

Grok 4.7$0.0050Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.7$0.118Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.7$0.460Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 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.

Specifications of Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.7MiniMax M3
MakerxAIMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2026May 31, 2026
Context window500K1.05M
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$6.00$1.20
Coding index66.739.2
Independent measurements behind it56
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.56
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.7 better than MiniMax M3 for coding?

Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 5 benchmarks against 6. Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or MiniMax M3?

Grok 4.7 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.7 or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.7 vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?

82 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Grok 4.7's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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