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MiniMax M3 vs MiMo-V2.5

MiMo-V2.5 leads MiniMax M3 on coding, 50.0 to 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiMo-V2.5 costs 3.6x less per output token ($0.336 vs $1.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 80 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace MiniMax M3 Replace MiMo-V2.5
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
59
MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi
Coding
50.0
Overall
50.7
Output $/M
$0.336
21
vs boards won of 80 shared

MiniMax M3 or MiMo-V2.5: which to pick

Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 3 benchmarks against 6.

Pick MiniMax M3 for work measured by LMArena WebDev or AA Coding Index, where it leads.

Model AMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved taskModel BMiMo-V2.5Xiaomi50.0/1003 independent benchmarks$0.01 per solved task
Shared results
80
MiniMax M3 only
36
MiMo-V2.5 only
0
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
MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks, MiMo-V2.5 50.0 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 11.3 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI): MiniMax M3 29.8% against MiMo-V2.5 9.1%, 20.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
MiniMax M3 $1.20 against MiMo-V2.5 $0.336 per million output tokens, 3.6x apart.
Context window
MiniMax M3 takes 1.05M tokens, MiMo-V2.5 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
CategoryMiniMax M3BarsMiMo-V2.5Ties
Coding131
Intelligence10
Agentic work42
Reasoning63
Math12
Knowledge100
Web design17
General236
All shared boards5921
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index131
Coding benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
LiveBench coding70.9%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev14821438MiniMax M3
AA Coding Index58.656.8MiniMax M3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)82.2%81.5%MiniMax M3
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)75.0%71.0%MiniMax M3
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)1.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)47.6%42.2%MiniMax M3
Code migration (Vals AI)19.9%14.2%MiniMax M3
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)53.6%60.7%MiMo-V2.5
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)33.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)9.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)51.5%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)65.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SciCode47.1%43.9%MiniMax M3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)42.4%41.7%MiniMax M3
FrontierCode14.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
ALE-Bench640.0514.0MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: coding14701469MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: software and IT14661463MiniMax M3
LMArena WebDev: React14781425MiniMax M3
LMArena WebDev: HTML14551429MiniMax M3
LMArena WebDev: from an image1470Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
AA Intelligence Index29.221.8MiniMax M3
Epoch Capabilities Index146.9Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index42
Agentic work benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
AA Agentic Index29.515.8MiniMax M3
Design Arena: agents building web apps1200Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1197Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1169Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1159Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1158Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1130Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1181Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1028Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench research68.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench browser8.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench long agentic12.4%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)48.3%36.7%MiniMax M3
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)20.6%7.8%MiniMax M3
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)29.8%9.1%MiniMax M3
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)47.8%55.1%MiMo-V2.5
τ²-Bench Telecom88.9%90.6%MiMo-V2.5
APEX-Agents37.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
OSWorld 2.04.6%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$2,158Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index63
Reasoning benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
GPQA Diamond92.7%81.6%MiniMax M3
LiveBench reasoning74.5%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)81.2%80.0%MiniMax M3
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)92.9%84.9%MiniMax M3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)39.0%27.2%MiniMax M3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.9%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SimpleBench45.8%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Chess puzzles13.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Mystery game puzzles8.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14471450MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: expert14611459MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14551461MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision: diagrams12661269MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision: homework12681262MiniMax M3
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
Math benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
OTIS Mock AIME71.1%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
ProofBench18.0%16.0%MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: math14291436MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work14481451MiMo-V2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Knowledge benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
MMLU Pro84.2%82.9%MiniMax M3
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.4%78.9%MiniMax M3
CorpFin (Vals AI)68.1%59.9%MiniMax M3
TaxEval (Vals AI)72.7%71.8%MiniMax M3
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.4%59.3%MiniMax M3
MedCode (Vals AI)46.3%31.9%MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: science14521440MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14411432MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: legal and government14371425MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: business and finance14341432MiniMax M3
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17
Web design benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
Design Arena: websites12571265MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: UI components12421255MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: game dev12101249MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: data viz12361250MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: 3D12081215MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: all code categories12471260MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: SVG11611179MiMo-V2.5
Design Arena: ASCII art11611140MiniMax M3
LiveBench design66.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index236
General benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
LiveBench data analysis76.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)64.1%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)50.6%43.3%MiniMax M3
MedScribe (Vals AI)87.3%72.2%MiniMax M3
Vals Multimodal Index60.0%52.8%MiniMax M3
IFBench82.9%67.1%MiniMax M3
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)83.0%73.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench78.9%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMCA33.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Surface Evolver Bench55.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text14331428MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: instruction following14331435MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: creative writing14041393MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision12511247MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: English14431447MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: non-English14201405MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Chinese14661469MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: German14281421MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Japanese13801306MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Korean13731361MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: French14441448MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: Spanish14331414MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Russian14261396MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: Polish14231413MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: multi-turn14431445MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text: longer queries14461445MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: writing and language14191409MiniMax M3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14031399MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: English12631259MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: Chinese13111326MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision: reading text12591256MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: humor12351226MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: recognizing things11971189MiniMax M3
LMArena Vision: creative writing12341230MiniMax M3
LMArena Document1435Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
BenchmarkMiniMax M3MiMo-V2.5Leader
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$0.0009Fits in one request
MiMo-V2.5$0.0003Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request
MiMo-V2.5$0.0094Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request
MiMo-V2.5$0.037Fits in one request

MiMo-V2.5 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 MiniMax M3 and MiMo-V2.5
SpecificationMiniMax M3Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5
MakerMiniMaxXiaomi
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedMay 31, 2026April 22, 2026
Context window1.05M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$0.30$0.168
Output $/Mtok$1.20$0.336
Coding index39.250.0
Independent measurements behind it63
Cost per solved task$0.56$0.01
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is MiniMax M3 better than MiMo-V2.5 for coding?

Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 3 benchmarks against 6. Pick MiniMax M3 for work measured by LMArena WebDev or AA Coding Index, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M3 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.168 and $0.336. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, MiniMax M3 costs $0.56 and MiMo-V2.5 $0.01.

Which has the bigger context window, MiniMax M3 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks is the MiniMax M3 vs MiMo-V2.5 comparison based on?

80 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. MiniMax M3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and MiMo-V2.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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