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gpt-oss-120b (free) vs MiniMax M3

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

MiniMax M3 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·MiniMax M3
Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#26 by perf·no signal
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MiniMax M3
#19 by perf·no signal
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Best value
gpt-oss-120b (free)
$0.00/M
MiniMax M3
93.3 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
gpt-oss-120b (free)MiniMax M3
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
MiniMax M3 leads by +22.2
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
gpt-oss-120b (free)
13.2
MiniMax M3
35.4
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
MiniMax M3 leads by +28.1
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
gpt-oss-120b (free)
30.4
MiniMax M3
58.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
MiniMax M3 leads by +20.6
gpt-oss-120b (free)
23.8
MiniMax M3
44.4
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120b (free)MiniMax M3
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
13.235.4
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
30.458.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
23.844.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
minimax logoMiniMax M3$0.30$1.201.0M tokens (~524 books)$5.25