MiniMax M2.7 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62.8 against 57. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 57% to 63%. MiniMax M2.7 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

MiniMax M2.7 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 Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M2.7 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. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 200K for MiniMax M2.7.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

MiniMax M2.7

57

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

62.8

57%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
63%
46.3%
Toolathlon
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66.6%
MLE-Bench Lite
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62.7%
MM-ClawBench
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BrowseComp
69%
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OSWorld-Verified
58%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

41.3

56.2%
SWE-bench Pro
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76.5%
SWE Multilingual
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52.7%
Multi-SWE Bench
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55.6%
VIBE-Pro
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39.8%
NL2Repo
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HumanEval
66%
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SWE-bench Verified
42%
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LiveCodeBench
41%

Multimodal & Grounded

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1495
GDPval-AA
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MMMU-Pro
61%
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OfficeQA Pro
74%

Reasoning

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MuSR
69%
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BBH
85%
Coming soon
LongBench v2
81%
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MRCRv2
85%

Knowledge

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
74%
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GPQA
73%
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SuperGPQA
71%
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HLE
15%
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FrontierScience
67%
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SimpleQA
71%

Instruction Following

Coming soon

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IFEval
84%

Multilingual

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MGSM
81%
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MMLU-ProX
79%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
74%
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AIME 2024
76%
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AIME 2025
75%
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HMMT Feb 2023
70%
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HMMT Feb 2024
72%
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HMMT Feb 2025
71%
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BRUMO 2025
73%
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MATH-500
84%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 63 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 57% and 63%.

Which is better for coding, MiniMax M2.7 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 41.3. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for agentic tasks, MiniMax M2.7 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 57. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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