# LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-1-2b-thinking-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking and MiniMax M3.

## Summary

- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking and MiniMax M3 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 16.82 | 61.5 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 42 (Supported · #109/152)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 70.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |
| BankerToolBench | Coming soon | 76.1% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 19.8% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 48.9 (Estimated · #66/151)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.0% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.1% | Coming soon |
| VIBE V2 | Coming soon | 50.1% | Coming soon |
| SVG-Bench | Coming soon | 63.7% | Coming soon |
| KernelBench Hard | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 48.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 52.2 (#34/48)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 45.1% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 78 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #64/182)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.7 (#4/121)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking and MiniMax M3 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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