SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | minimax |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 75.3 | 47.2 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.30/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $1.20/M |
| Context Window | 500,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 450,000 | 512,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 73.1 | 48.2 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiniMax M3 costs $0.60 and Grok 4.6 costs $3.50, so MiniMax M3 is about 5.8 times cheaper for the same work.
MiniMax M3 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok 4.6.
Only MiniMax M3 offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score Grok 4.6 leads 75.3 to 47.2.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Grok 4.6 scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), MiniMax M3 on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Grok 4.6 was released in August 2026 and MiniMax M3 in May 2026.
Pick Grok 4.6 if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick MiniMax M3 if you need lower cost, long documents or video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 139 |
| Code Review | 145 | 141 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 132 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 143 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 145 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 129 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 136 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 125 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 127 |
| Data Analysis | 135 | 131 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 134 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 133 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 133 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 148 | 145 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 127 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →