Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
60
MiniMax M3
76
Verified leaderboard positions: Hy3 Preview unranked · MiniMax M3 #12
Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Agentic
+17.5 difference
Coding
+7.0 difference
Hy3 Preview
MiniMax M3
$0 / $0
$0.3 / $1.2
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
256K
1M
Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
MiniMax M3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 76 to 60. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MiniMax M3's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 71.9 against 54.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 54.4% to 66%.
MiniMax M3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Hy3 Preview. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Hy3 Preview is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M3 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. MiniMax M3 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Hy3 Preview.
MiniMax M3 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 76 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 54.4% and 66%.
MiniMax M3 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 67 versus 60. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MiniMax M3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.9 versus 54.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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