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GPT-5.6 Terra vs MiniMax M3: pricing, Quality, Value, and benchmarks
Side-by-side buyer comparison built from the current published top 10 snapshot. Quality and Value stay deterministic, while editorial verdict excerpts remain clearly AI-labeled.
Provisional evidenceProvisional evidence
GPT-5.6 Terra Quality
62.0
MiniMax M3 Quality
22.1
Quality delta
+39.9GPT-5.6 Terra leads
Value delta
-46.1MiniMax M3 leads
Buyer summary
GPT-5.6 Terra leads Quality by 39.9 points. MiniMax M3 leads Value by 46.1 points.
Shared roster
Both pages link back to the same published roster and methodology, so the comparison stays on one deterministic evidence set.
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
Monthly price
MiniMax Free: $0/month
App access
MiniMax
Conversation benchmark
Free tier
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
Deterministic scores
Quality and Value comparison
GPT-5.6 Terra
Q 62.0
V 22.7
Quality rank 3 and value rank 6 in the current published roster.
MiniMax M3
Q 22.1
V 68.8
Quality rank 9 and value rank 1 in the current published roster.
Buyer access
Pricing, app access, and Conversation Value
GPT-5.6 Terra
Deterministic3K tokens/chat
ChatGPT access and limits vary by plan and product surface.
Unavailable
Hosted app: ChatGPT
MiniMax M3
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
MiniMax Free: $0/month
Free tier
Hosted app: MiniMax
Benchmark evidence
GPT-5.6 Terra
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
41.8%
Artificial Analysis GPT-5.6 Terra max analysis page | Independent Artificial Analysis HLE result for the max-reasoning model variant. This is provisional tier-3 evidence, not an OpenAI-published no-tools HLE result.
SWE-Bench Pro
Software engineering task resolution
63.4%
OpenAI GPT-5.6 release | Vendor-reported OpenAI GPT-5.6 launch result. Preserve the named tier and launch configuration; do not substitute a similarly named benchmark or model variant.
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
92.9%
OpenAI GPT-5.6 release | Vendor-reported OpenAI GPT-5.6 launch result. Preserve the named tier and launch configuration; do not substitute a similarly named benchmark or model variant.
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Agentic terminal task completion
87.4%
OpenAI GPT-5.6 release | Vendor-reported OpenAI GPT-5.6 launch result. Preserve the named tier and launch configuration; do not substitute a similarly named benchmark or model variant.
Benchmark evidence
MiniMax M3
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
37.1%
Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation | Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.
Editorial excerpt
GPT-5.6 Terra
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
The balanced GPT-5.6 option for everyday work, trading some peak capability for lower cost.
GPT-5.6 Terra is the balanced tier for everyday professional and coding workloads. It gives up some peak performance versus Sol in exchange for lower token pricing, making it the practical default when both capability and cost matter.
Editorial excerpt
MiniMax M3
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
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