# MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview vs Nova Pro

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview and Nova Pro across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m3-1-flash-preview-vs-nova-pro
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview and Nova Pro.

## Summary

- MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview and Nova Pro 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 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview | Nova Pro |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Amazon |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | null | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 20.79 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 0 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nova Pro public-lane score: 36.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nova Pro public-lane score: 25.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nova Pro public-lane score: 29.6 (Estimated · #132/158)

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nova Pro public-lane score: 42.5 (#95/124)

## FAQ

### Can I compare MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview and Nova Pro 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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- [Nova Pro vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-nova-pro)
- [MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-minimax-m3-1-flash-preview)
- [Nova Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-nova-pro)

## Explore More

- [MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview profile](/models/minimax-m3-1-flash-preview)
- [Nova Pro profile](/models/nova-pro)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)