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MiniMax M3 at a glance

Good enough on 25/52 tasks at the 90% bar. Best value on 11 tasks. Best fit for: Financial Analysis & Trading Decisions, Long-form Content Generation, Social & Promotional Content.

Provider
MiniMax
Model name
MiniMax-M3
Cost mode:
Qualifies on
25 / 52 tasks (at 90% bar)
Best value on
11 tasks

Cost vs quality across all tasks

0%25%50%75%100%78910Quality score (7–10)Cost-efficiency vs best value (1.0 = best value)Vetted News Site Selection — quality 7.64, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Onboarding Subject Analysis — quality 8.67, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Theme Generation — quality 8.87, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Structured Output Extraction — quality 9.46, 13.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionX Post Relevance Scoring — quality 7.21, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★X.com Promotional Post Generation — quality 8.12, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Activity Feed Blurb Generation — quality 8.36, 3.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionResearch Query Validation — quality 8.64, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Substack Newsletter — quality 9.14, 2.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSubreddit Quality Vetting — quality 8.57, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★SEC Filing Analysis — quality 9.74, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★S-1 TOC Extraction — quality 9.04, 2.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionLanguage Detection — quality 9.95, 5.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionExecutive Summary Generation — quality 7.50, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Publication Title Generation — quality 8.98, 2.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionMarkdown Newline Repair — quality 8.52, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★Landing Page Section Generation — quality 9.57, 1.7x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Cluster Naming — quality 8.23, 1.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionEngagement Triage — quality 8.77, 4.7x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionX Post Selection — quality 8.36, 4.7x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionAuthor Voice Generation — quality 9.71, 2.1x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSEC S-1 Chunk Analysis — quality 9.06, 1.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionClaim Refinement — quality 7.67, 2.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionImage Prompt Generation — quality 8.73, 5.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionReddit Post Generation — quality 7.91, this model IS the best-value good-enough option★

within ~1.3× of the best-value model · 1.3–2× · >2× · ★ this model is the best-value pick on that task. Top-right = best quadrant. Only tasks where this model qualifies at the 90% bar are plotted.

Per-task breakdown

TaskCategoryQuality (% of best)ConfidenceOverpay
Markdown Newline Repair ★Infrastructure & Utility91%MEDIUMbest value
X.com Promotional Post Generation ★Social & Promotional Content93%RANKEDbest value
Onboarding Subject Analysis ★Financial Analysis & Trading Decisions94%RANKEDbest value
Subreddit Quality Vetting ★Relevance, Classification & Matching90%HIGHbest value
Vetted News Site Selection ★Relevance, Classification & Matching90%RANKEDbest value
SEC Filing Analysis ★ bestFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions100%RANKEDbest value
Reddit Post Generation ★Social & Promotional Content91%RANKEDbest value
Executive Summary Generation ★Content Summarization & Synthesis95%RANKEDbest value
Research Query Validation ★ bestInfrastructure & Utility100%RANKEDbest value
X Post Relevance Scoring ★Relevance, Classification & Matching98%RANKEDbest value
Theme Generation ★Long-form Content Generation91%RANKEDbest value
Topic Cluster NamingTopic Organization & Clustering94%RANKED1.2x
Landing Page Section GenerationLong-form Content Generation97%MEDIUM1.7x
SEC S-1 Chunk AnalysisFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions98%RANKED1.8x
S-1 TOC ExtractionStructured Data & Fact Extraction96%RANKED2x
Author Voice Generation bestLong-form Content Generation100%RANKED2.1x
Publication Title Generation bestContent Summarization & Synthesis100%RANKED2.3x
Claim RefinementInfrastructure & Utility90%MEDIUM2.5x
Substack NewsletterLong-form Content Generation99%RANKED2.9x
Activity Feed Blurb GenerationSocial & Promotional Content95%MEDIUM3.2x
Engagement TriageRelevance, Classification & Matching98%RANKED4.7x
X Post SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching96%RANKED4.7x
Image Prompt GenerationInfrastructure & Utility95%MEDIUM5x
Language DetectionRelevance, Classification & Matching99%RANKED5.8x
Structured Output ExtractionStructured Data & Fact Extraction96%RANKED13x

Overpay — how much more you pay by running this model instead of the best-value model that clears the quality bar on that task (marked ★). "16x" means you overpay 16× — the same output for 16× the best-value good-enough option; ★ means this model is that option (no overpayment). Confidence — how sure we are about the quality score (more judgments + more agreement = higher confidence): RANKED many independent judges scored this model's outputs and their agreement is very high (most confident) — HIGH many judges have scored it and they mostly agree (well-pinned) — MEDIUM enough judges have weighed in to publish, but they disagree more than we'd like (treat with a small grain of salt). LOW-confidence cells are hidden everywhere on the site. See the methodology for the exact thresholds.