Model vs model

Llama 4 Maverick vs MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 is the better pick for most demanding work, because it leads on nearly every benchmark, including coding (58.6 against 16.3) and Humanity's Last Exam (39 against 4.9). Its Intelligence Index is 29.2 against 9.3, and it accepts PDFs and has a 512K context window. Llama 4 Maverick is the case for high-volume, cost-sensitive jobs: it costs $0.42 per 1M tokens blended against $0.52.

By ModelCompare · 25 October 2026

At a glance

Longer bar means the bigger number.

Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better

Llama 4 Maverick$0.42

MiniMax M3$0.52

Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better

Llama 4 Maverick9.3

MiniMax M329.2

Context window · tokens it can read at once

Llama 4 Maverick128K

MiniMax M3512K

Where they sit among all 44 models

Llama 4 Maverick ranks 42nd of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, MiniMax M3 24th. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with Llama 4 Maverick.

Intelligence: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Price: blended per 1M tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output, on a log scale.

Which one to pick

Pick Llama 4 Maverick if

you want the lower bill ($0.42 vs $0.52 per 1M tokens blended)

Pick MiniMax M3 if

you want the higher overall score (29.2 vs 9.3)
you care about coding: 58.6 vs 16.3
you care about IFBench (instruction following): 82.9 vs 43
you need a longer context window (512K vs 128K tokens)

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How smart is each one?

Of the 15 scores both models have, MiniMax M3 is ahead on every one.

Every intelligence score we have

Out of 100, higher is better. Llama 4 Maverick MiniMax M3

Overall

Intelligence Index
9.329.2

By area

Coding
16.358.6
Math
19.3
MiniMax M3: not scored yet
Agentic work
0.629.5

By field of work

Finance & accounting
930.1
Legal
11.531.5
Healthcare & medicine
27.8
Llama 4 Maverick: not scored yet
Economics
1343.7
Engineering
11.331.2
Strategy & operations
7.625

Benchmarks

Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam
4.939
Science · GPQA Diamond
67.192.9
Knowledge · MMLU-Pro
80.9
MiniMax M3: not scored yet
Competitive coding · LiveCodeBench
39.7
MiniMax M3: not scored yet
Scientific coding · SciCode
31.747.1
Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0
02
Tool use · τ-Bench Banking
3.715.3
Instruction following · IFBench
4382.9
Long documents · AA-LCR
5083
Competition math · AIME 2025
19.3
MiniMax M3: not scored yet
Competition math · AIME 2024
39
MiniMax M3: not scored yet
Math · MATH-500
88.9
MiniMax M3: not scored yet

Our tests

Rule that has to last 4 turns · our test, % of tries passed
33
Llama 4 Maverick: not scored yet
Three bullets, no letter e · our test, % of tries passed
100
Llama 4 Maverick: not scored yet

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The specs

Spec	Llama 4 Maverick	MiniMax M3
Input price	$0.24 per 1M	$0.30 per 1M
Output price	$0.97 per 1M	$1.20 per 1M
Cost per test task	Not tested	$0.5076
Context window	128K	512K
Max output	8K	512K
Accepts	Text, Image	Text, Image, PDF
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Lab	Meta	MiniMax
Released	Apr 2025	Jun 2026
Knowledge cutoff	Aug 2024	Not published

Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.

Questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick or MiniMax M3 cheaper?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It charges $0.24 per 1M input tokens and $0.97 per 1M output tokens, against $0.30 and $1.20 for MiniMax M3. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $0.42 against $0.52 per 1M tokens.

Which is smarter, Llama 4 Maverick or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 29.2 against 9.3 for Llama 4 Maverick. The biggest differences are on Coding (16.3 vs 58.6) and IFBench (43 vs 82.9).

Which has the longer context window?

MiniMax M3 accepts 512K tokens, against 128K for Llama 4 Maverick.

Can I compare Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M3 on my own prompt?

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Where the numbers come from

Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 25, 2026.