# MiniMax M3 vs Muse Spark

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m3-vs-muse-spark
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

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

## Summary

- Muse Spark leads overall 60.42 to 54.94.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 82.9 for MiniMax M3 and 57.1 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Claw-Eval in Agentic, with scores of 74.5% and 63.8%.
- MiniMax M3 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 54.94 | 60.42 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 25 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Muse Spark
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.4 (Supported · #67/126)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 51 (Supported · #45/126)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 70.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 74.5% | 63.8% | MiniMax M3 |
| BankerToolBench | 76.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 53.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Muse Spark
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 36.5 (Supported · #73/149)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 49.9 (Supported · #43/149)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.5% | 77.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59% | 52.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 42.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VIBE V2 | 50.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SVG-Bench | 63.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| KernelBench Hard | 28.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 48.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 75.0% | 74.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 82.9 (#5/29)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 57.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 61.5 (#43/54)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 84.4 (#12/54)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 45.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.1% | 80.4% | Muse Spark |
| VideoMMMU | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 85.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 33.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Muse Spark
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 49.6 (Supported · #81/182)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 62.3 (Supported · #43/182)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | 89.6% | MiniMax M3 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.2% | 87.3% | Muse Spark |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/146)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 93.3 (#10/146)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M3 or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MiniMax M3 and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 82.9 for MiniMax M3 and 57.1 for Muse Spark.

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

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Muse Spark cover on BenchLM?

Muse Spark currently has 25 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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