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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-01.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash
Vendorminimaxstepfun
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.30/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.20/M$1.15/M
Context Window1,048,576256,000
Max Output512,000256,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash
SQL Generation 133 131
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 131 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 131 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 129
Blog Post Writing 121 119

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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