MiniMax M3 vs Mistral Large 3
Rank, tier, score and price side by side, from our weekly rankings. Scores are editorial opinion based on public sources.
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MiniMax M3
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Mistral Large 3
- ProviderMiniMaxMistral AI
- Rank#42#41Higher rank
- TierAA
- Score80.080.9Higher score
- PriceOpen weights (MiniMax Community License); API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens via MiniMax (prompts up to 512K; $0.60 / $2.40 above)API $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0)
- TaglineNatively multimodal open-weight model built for very long agent trajectories.Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window.
| Attribute | MiniMax M3 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Mistral AI |
| Rank | #42 | #41Higher rank |
| Tier | A | A |
| Score | 80.0 | 80.9Higher score |
| Price | Open weights (MiniMax Community License); API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens via MiniMax (prompts up to 512K; $0.60 / $2.40 above) | API $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0) |
| Tagline | Natively multimodal open-weight model built for very long agent trajectories. | Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window. |