# Ling 3.0 Flash vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- MiniMax M3 leads overall 63.91 to 52.2.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.6 for Ling 3.0 Flash and 93.5 for MiniMax M3.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BrowseComp in Agentic, with scores of 72.2% and 83.5%.
- Ling 3.0 Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- MiniMax M3 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | MiniMax |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 52.2 | 63.91 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 22 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: MiniMax M3
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #121/151)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 43.2 (Supported · #106/151)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 65.5% | 74.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| skillsBench | 44.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 73.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 73.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 72.2% | 83.5% | MiniMax M3 |
| DRACO | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 50.2% | 53.6% | MiniMax M3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 70.1% | 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #126/183)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #68/183)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | 59% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE Multilingual | 72.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.0% | 82.2% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 65.2% | 75.0% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.5% | 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 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 52 (#34/48)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | 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: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 78.5 (#5/22)

### Knowledge

- Winner: MiniMax M3
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 45.9 (Supported · #112/181)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 53.9 (Supported · #65/181)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 84.8% | 92.7% | MiniMax M3 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 82.0% | 84.2% | MiniMax M3 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.6 (#58/120)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.5 (#4/120)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Ling 3.0 Flash or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Ling 3.0 Flash and MiniMax M3?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.6 for Ling 3.0 Flash and 93.5 for MiniMax M3.

### How many benchmarks does Ling 3.0 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M3 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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