# MiniMax M3 vs Beam

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m3-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Beam 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 54.45 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 66.0% and 80.1%.
- Beam 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 | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Pending |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | null |
| Overall Score | 54.45 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.9 (Supported · #58/119)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | 80.1% | Beam |
| BrowseComp | 83.5% | 77.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 70.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 74.2% | 78.7% | Beam |
| Claw-Eval | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 37.9 (Supported · #68/144)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.5% | 80.9% | Beam |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59% | 65.5% | Beam |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.0% | 80.1% | Beam |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 79.4 (#5/27)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 51.6 (#36/49)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | 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: 48.6 (Supported · #72/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 92.4 (#5/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

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

| Benchmark | MiniMax M3 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M3 or Beam?

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 Beam cover on BenchLM?

Beam currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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