# MiniMax M3 vs Ornith-1.0-9B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniMax M3 and Ornith-1.0-9B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m3-vs-ornith-1-0-9b
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B 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 54.86 to 39.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 66.0% and 43.1%.
- Ornith-1.0-9B 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 | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | DeepReinforce AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 54.86 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.9 (Supported · #45/105)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | 43.1% | MiniMax M3 |
| 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% | 63.1% | 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.2 (Supported · #59/135)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.5% | 69.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59% | 42.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | 43.1% | MiniMax M3 |
| NL2Repo | 42.1% | 27.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 52% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 79.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 52 (#36/50)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 45.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 85.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 49.3 (Supported · #59/158)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 92.4 (#5/124)
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.0-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Ornith-1.0-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M3 or Ornith-1.0-9B?

MiniMax M3 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ornith-1.0-9B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.0-9B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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