# MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m3-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Qwen3.5 397B leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate 55.47 to 54.94. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 93.8 for MiniMax M3 and 79.9 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 74.2% and 46.1%.
- MiniMax M3 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 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Overall Score | 54.94 | 55.47 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 62 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.4 (Supported · #67/126)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #59/126)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.5% | 69% | MiniMax M3 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 70.1% | 62.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| MCP Atlas | 74.2% | 46.1% | MiniMax M3 |
| Claw-Eval | 74.5% | 56.8% | MiniMax M3 |
| BankerToolBench | 76.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.8% | 14.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| 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 | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 36.5 (Supported · #73/149)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.5% | 76.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59% | 50.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 42.1% | 32.2% | 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 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 82.9 (#5/29)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 61.5 (#43/54)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.6 (#29/54)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 45.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 91.6% | 90.8% | MiniMax M3 |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.1% | 79% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| VideoMMMU | 84.6% | 84.7% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 85.4% | 87.5% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| We-Math | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 67.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 61.5% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.2% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 47.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 67.5% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 49.6 (Supported · #81/182)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 53.2 (Estimated · #66/182)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/17)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/146)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 79.9 (#57/146)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 81.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M3 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 93.8 for MiniMax M3 and 79.9 for Qwen3.5 397B.

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

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 62 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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