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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs xAI: Grok Build 0.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-17.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 xAI: Grok Build 0.1
Vendorminimaxx-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score80.9-
Input Price$0.30/M$1.00/M
Output Price$1.20/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,048,576256,000
Max Output512,000-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.3-
ai_index_agentic100.0-
ai_index_coding71.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3xAI: Grok Build 0.1
SQL Generation 168 130
Code Review 163 126
Code Completion 133 116
Code Refactoring 161 127
Bug Fixing 179 130
Unit Test Generation 150 121
Code Documentation 142 125
Regex Writing 135 119
CI/CD Pipelines 142 117
Frontend Component Design 144 122
Data Analysis 169 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 150 127
ETL Scripting 151 122
JSON Extraction 145 123
Bulk Data Labeling 134 121
OCR / Document Parsing 143 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 143 128
Long-Document Summarization 158 129
Short-Form Summarization 131 115
Blog Post Writing 139 118

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

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