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Solar Open2 250BSolar Pro 4MiniMax-M3
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Hard reasoning: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 179 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Gemma 4 E4B, Sarvam 30B, Qwen3.5 4B, Sarvam 105B, Ling 3.0 Flash, MiMo-V2.5, GPT-6 Luna, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next, GLM-5.3 Flash, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Muse Spark 1.3, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5. 70 models are not plotted: Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, Solar Open2 250B, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, G9v3-39A5B, K2 Horizon 7B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, EXAONE 4.5 33B, Nanbeige4.1-3B, HyperNova 60B 2605, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B, INTELLECT-3, Apriel-v1.6-15B-Thinker, Command A+, K2 Horizon 3.7B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Think V2, Step3 VL 10B, DiffusionGemma 26B A4B, K2-V2, North Mini Code, Falcon-H1R-7B, Solar Open 100B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, MiniCPM5-2B, LongCat Flash Lite, HyperCLOVA X SEED Think (32B), Tri-21B-Think, EXAONE 4.0 32B, Olmo 3.1 32B Think, LFM2.5-2.6B, Devstral 2, LFM2.5-8B-A1B, Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct, Olmo 3 7B Think, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B, Devstral Small 2, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.5 2B, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B, LFM2 24B A2B, Exaone 4.0 1.2B, Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision), Gemma 4 E2B, Molmo2-8B, LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, MiniCPM5-1B, Jamba 1.7 Large, MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct, Granite 4.0 Micro, Jamba Reasoning 3B, Jamba 1.7 Mini, Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, Tiny Aya Global, LFM2.5-VL-1.6B, Granite 4.0 H 350M, K2 Horizon 0.9B, Qwen3.5 0.8B, Granite 4.0 350M, Granite 4.0 H 1B, Molmo 7B-D, Gemma 3 270M.

70 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, Solar Open2 250B, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, G9v3-39A5B, K2 Horizon 7B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, EXAONE 4.5 33B, Nanbeige4.1-3B, HyperNova 60B 2605, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B, INTELLECT-3, Apriel-v1.6-15B-Thinker, Command A+, K2 Horizon 3.7B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Think V2, Step3 VL 10B, DiffusionGemma 26B A4B, K2-V2, North Mini Code, Falcon-H1R-7B, Solar Open 100B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, MiniCPM5-2B, LongCat Flash Lite, HyperCLOVA X SEED Think (32B), Tri-21B-Think, EXAONE 4.0 32B, Olmo 3.1 32B Think, LFM2.5-2.6B, Devstral 2, LFM2.5-8B-A1B, Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct, Olmo 3 7B Think, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B, Devstral Small 2, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.5 2B, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 70B, LFM2 24B A2B, Exaone 4.0 1.2B, Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision), Gemma 4 E2B, Molmo2-8B, LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, MiniCPM5-1B, Jamba 1.7 Large, MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct, Granite 4.0 Micro, Jamba Reasoning 3B, Jamba 1.7 Mini, Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, Tiny Aya Global, LFM2.5-VL-1.6B, Granite 4.0 H 350M, K2 Horizon 0.9B, Qwen3.5 0.8B, Granite 4.0 350M, Granite 4.0 H 1B, Molmo 7B-D, Gemma 3 270M

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Solar Open2 250B
    Quality
    63.4
    Rank
    #43/182
    Price
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    Speed
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    vs MiniMax-M3: −7.3 quality · price n/a

  • Solar Pro 4
    Quality
    64.7
    Rank
    #38/182
    Price
    $0.52/M tok
    Speed
    93tok/s
    In$0.30▾Out$1.20▾/M tok

    vs MiniMax-M3: −6.0 quality · 1× price

  • MiniMax-M3
    Quality
    70.7
    Rank
    #30/182
    Price
    $0.52/M tok
    Speed
    118tok/s
    In$0.30▾Out$1.20▾/M tok

    vs Solar Pro 4: +6.0 quality · 1× price

Overview

Lab
Upstage
Upstage
MiniMax
Released
Aug 12, 2026
Aug 6, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
Weights
Open
Proprietary
Open
Input price
$/M tok
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$0.30Best
$0.30Best
Output price
$/M tok
—
$1.20Best
$1.20Best
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
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$0.525Best
$0.525Best
Output speed
tok/s
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93
118Best
⚡ SambaNova 246
Context
tokens
1MBest
512K
1M

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

47.2±10.0Best
#34/103Verified
37.5±8.0
#49/103Verified
44.1±5.4
#37/103Mixed
Not ranked
Not ranked
71.1±4.2
#24/146Verified
Not ranked
Not ranked
63.8±5.3
#24/82Mixed
63.4±5.8
#43/182Verified
64.7±5.8
#38/182Verified
70.7±3.7Best
#30/182Verified
47.5±10.0
#37/173Verified
47.9±10.0Best
#36/173Verified
47.4±3.4
#38/173Mixed

Hard reasoning benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

~#2/25~96.2%Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/25~94.7%Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/25~95.8%Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
Benchmarks in other categories (4)

Coding benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

~last/15below measured range (<41.1)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~last/15below measured range (<41.1)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~#15/15~41.0Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks

Writing & chat benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Vision benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Agents benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
Not comparable across labs (1)
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#1/170.1%Lab-reported
minimax.io · 2026-06-01