# LFM3-VL-2B vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM3-VL-2B and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm3-vl-2b-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: October 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: LFM3-VL-2B and MiniMax M3 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- LFM3-VL-2B has the lower published output-token price.
- MiniMax M3 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM3-VL-2B | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | MiniMax |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 55.11 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 20 | 28 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #74/134)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 66.0% | 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 |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 37.4 (Supported · #76/155)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 82 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: 19.6 (Unranked · 19 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 59.2 (#48/58)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| RealWorldQA | 79.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 36.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | 55.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 45.7% | 78.1% | MiniMax M3 |
| OCRBench V2 | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 90.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 68.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 48.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 55.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 52.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 69.0% | 85.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| VideoMMMU | 49.6% | 84.6% | MiniMax M3 |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 45.1% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 51.7 (Supported · #76/189)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | 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
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.8 (#6/156)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between LFM3-VL-2B and MiniMax M3?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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