Agentic
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 42.1
- Supported · #107/152
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 9 vs 4 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
MiniMax M3 vs Solar Pro 4
Updated September 10, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner.
3 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
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Which one for your work
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
Show secondary and unsupported calls
Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
Solar Pro 4 is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Confidence: limited
Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
Solar Pro 4 is not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.
Confidence: limited
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
No clear pick
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
No clear pick
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
No clear pick
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
What is actually comparable
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
24 MiniMax M3 only
3 Shared
7 Solar Pro 4 only
- Shared results
- 3
- MiniMax M3 only
- 24
- Solar Pro 4 only
- 7
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 / 8
Category results, on a stated basis
Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
Coding
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 48.8
- Estimated · #66/151
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 10 vs 3 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Reasoning
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 78.0
- #4/20
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Knowledge
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 53.2
- Supported · #64/183
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 2 vs 2 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Math
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not ranked
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 1 vs 1 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multilingual
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not ranked
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multimodal
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 52.2
- #34/48
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 2 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Instruction following
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 93.7
- #4/123
- Solar Pro 4
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
| Category | MiniMax M3 | Solar Pro 4 | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 42.1Supported · #107/152 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 9 vs 4 public rows | Not comparable |
| Coding | 48.8Estimated · #66/151 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 10 vs 3 public rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | 78.0#4/20 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | 53.2Supported · #64/183 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 2 vs 2 public rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 1 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 52.2#34/48 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 2 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | 93.7#4/123 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Shape of the matched evidence
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
BrowseComp
Agentic
SWE-bench Verified
Coding
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
Chat turn
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.0009
- Fits in one request
- Solar Pro 4
- $0.0009
- Fits in one request
Modeled costs are equal
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Repository review
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.0186
- Fits in one request
- Solar Pro 4
- $0.0186
- Fits in one request
Modeled costs are equal
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Cache-heavy agent loop
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.03
- Fits in one request
- Solar Pro 4
- $0.03
- Fits in one request
Modeled costs are equal
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Specification differences
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
SpecificationMiniMax M3Solar Pro 4
Context window
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
MiniMax M3
1M
Solar Pro 4
API model ID
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Solar Pro 4
solar-pro4
Upstage Solar Pro 4 launch postCached-input rate
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
MiniMax M3
$0.06 per 1M cached input tokens
Solar Pro 4
$0.06 per 1M cached input tokens
Upstage Solar Pro 4 launch postDocumented inputs
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Solar Pro 4
Not sourced
Documented outputs
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Solar Pro 4
Not sourced
Provider availability
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Solar Pro 4
Not sourced
Reasoning profile
MiniMax M3
Non-Reasoning
Solar Pro 4
Reasoning
Weight access
MiniMax M3
Open Weight
Solar Pro 4
Proprietary
License
MiniMax M3
Open Weight
Solar Pro 4
Proprietary
Release date
MiniMax M3
2026-06-01
Solar Pro 4
2026-08-11
If you already use one of these models
- Deployment change
- The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
- Quality signal
- At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner.
- Workload cost
- Repository review: $0.0186 vs $0.0186. Cache-heavy agent loop: $0.03 vs $0.03.
- Context tradeoff
- MiniMax M3 has the larger documented window (1M).
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
Benchmark evidence
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Browse raw public benchmark evidence34 rows
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.0
MiniMax M366%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
BrowseComp
MiniMax M383.5%SourceSolar Pro 449.2%SourceMiniMax M3 leads this result
OSWorld-Verified
MiniMax M370.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
MiniMax M374.2%SourceSolar Pro 461.4%SourceMiniMax M3 leads this result
Claw-Eval
MiniMax M374.5%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
BankerToolBench
MiniMax M376.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
ResearchClawBench
MiniMax M319.8%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.0
MiniMax M34.6%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
MiniMax M353.6%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
MiniMax M3—Solar Pro 457.0%SourceNot directly comparable
APEX-Agents
MiniMax M3—Solar Pro 418.7%SourceNot directly comparable
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M380.5%SourceSolar Pro 470.6%SourceMiniMax M3 leads this result
SWE-bench Pro
MiniMax M359%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
MiniMax M366.0%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
MiniMax M342.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
VIBE V2
MiniMax M350.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
SVG-Bench
MiniMax M363.7%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
KernelBench Hard
MiniMax M328.8%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
OpenHarmony Bench
MiniMax M348.4%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
MiniMax M382.2%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
MiniMax M375.0%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
MiniMax M3—Solar Pro 457.0%SourceNot directly comparable
LiveCodeBench
MiniMax M3—Solar Pro 487.8%SourceNot directly comparable
Knowledge
Math
Multimodal
OfficeQA Pro
MiniMax M345.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
MiniMax M391.6%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
MiniMax M378.1%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
MiniMax M384.6%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
MiniMax M385.4%SourceSolar Pro 4—Not directly comparable
Frequently asked questions
Which is better, MiniMax M3 or Solar Pro 4?
At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Which is better for coding, MiniMax M3 or Solar Pro 4?
Solar Pro 4 is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Which is better for agentic tasks, MiniMax M3 or Solar Pro 4?
Solar Pro 4 is not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.
Which costs less, MiniMax M3 or Solar Pro 4?
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.0009 on MiniMax M3 and $0.0009 on Solar Pro 4; repository review costs $0.0186 and $0.0186; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.03 and $0.03. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Which has the larger context window, MiniMax M3 or Solar Pro 4?
MiniMax M3 has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 512K.
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Last updated September 10, 2026
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