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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendoropenaiminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score80.247.2
Input Price$1.00/M$0.30/M
Output Price$5.00/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,050,0001,048,576
Max Output128,000512,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index77.548.2

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 142 139
Code Review 146 141
Code Completion 120 132
Code Refactoring 148 143
Bug Fixing 150 145
Unit Test Generation 133 129
Code Documentation 137 136
Regex Writing 126 124
CI/CD Pipelines 129 125
Frontend Component Design 131 127
Data Analysis 135 131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 138 134
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 120 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 133
Long-Document Summarization 149 145
Short-Form Summarization 118 126
Blog Post Writing 130 127

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

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