Noometry

Model comparison

Hy3 vs MiniMax-M3

Hy3 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.2 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Hy3 scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 40.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 41.2% for Hy3 and 65.1% for MiniMax-M3.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Hy3MiniMax-M3
ProviderTencentMiniMax
Noometry Index44.243.8
Released2026-07-062026-06-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K1M
Max output128K512K
Input $ / M tokens$0.0825$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$0.33$1.20
Results tracked1941

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Category by category

Coding Hy3 leads

Hy3: 46.8 (#63), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev15081482
LMArena Coding14641469
FrontierCode—14.7%
SciCode—47.1%
ALE-Bench—640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Hy3: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Hy3: 26.1 (#136), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
NYT Connections (extended)41.2%65.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14471447
SimpleBench—45.8%
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles—14%
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
DTBench—78.9%
LMCA—33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.95
ForecastBench—61.4

Math Too close to call

Hy3: 40.1 (#93), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Math14751429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Hy3: 40.8 (#114), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert14601461
GPQA Diamond—90.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Hy3: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision—1253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual Too close to call

Hy3: 53.5 (#65), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14261420
LMArena Chinese14931463
LMArena French14611447
LMArena German14391426
LMArena Japanese13921381
LMArena Korean13951372
LMArena Russian14321428
LMArena Spanish14561432

Instruction Following Too close to call

Hy3: 75.1 (#70), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14261433

Long Context Too close to call

Hy3: 44.1 (#75), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14421445

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Hy3: 62.2 (#81), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkHy3MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14391433
LMArena Creative Writing14021404
LMArena Multi-Turn14361442
EQ-Bench 4—1150

Frequently asked questions

Is Hy3 better than MiniMax-M3?

Hy3 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.2 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Hy3 or MiniMax-M3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M3 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is Hy3 or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M3 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Hy3 and MiniMax-M3 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy3 has 19 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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