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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3
Vendorminimaxx-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score47.239.3
Input Price$0.30/M$1.25/M
Output Price$1.20/M$2.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output512,000900,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index48.241.1

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3
SQL Generation 139 138
Code Review 141 139
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 143 142
Bug Fixing 145 143
Unit Test Generation 129 128
Code Documentation 136 134
Regex Writing 124 123
CI/CD Pipelines 125 124
Frontend Component Design 127 126
Data Analysis 131 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 135
ETL Scripting 134 133
JSON Extraction 131 123
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 133 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 133
Long-Document Summarization 145 144
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 127 126

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

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