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  3. Grok 4.3 vs MiniMax M2-her
Updated May 2026

Grok 4.3 vs MiniMax M2-her

MiniMax M2-her is cheaper than Grok 4.3 at $0.3/M vs $1.25/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

24 prompts
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Grok 4.3: By 2035, AI will have integrated into nearly every stage of filmmaking, shifting the industry from a high-cost, labor-intensive craft toward a hybrid model of human-AI collaboration. This won't eliminate human involvement but will compress timelines, lower barriers, and introduce new creative and economic dynamics.

    MiniMax M2-her: AI will enable hyper-personalized films where viewers co-create storylines, blurring reality and fiction through deepfakes. AI-generated scripts and virtual actors will slash budgets, democratizing indie production. Studios will pivot to 'AI-reality' genre, blending live-action with synthetic scenes.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Grok 4.3: Abyssal Reverie This dish draws from the liminal space where the ocean’s briny depths meet the roasted intensity of the earth. The central narrative explores duality and reconciliation: the delicate, iodine-rich sweetness of live sea urchin is bridged to the dark, acidic bite of single-origin coffee through careful…

    MiniMax M2-her: Alright, I can certainly help craft an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. Let me take you through the process step by step, just like a chef would. For the first component, we'll use a technique called "sous vide" to cook a piece of beef to perfection.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Grok 4.3: Immediate priority: Patient safety and regulatory compliance. The signal for liver failure (serious, life-threatening adverse event) triggers obligations under FDA post-marketing requirements (21 CFR 314.80/600.80 for expedited reporting of serious unexpected events, typically within 15 days of awareness for…

    MiniMax M2-her: adjusts tie Hour 1-2: Meet legal and ethics. Hour 3-4: Review data. Hour 5-6: Notify regulators. Hour 7-8: Draft patient letter. Hour 9-10: Prepare PR team. Hour 11-12: Inform board early. Hour 13-14: Train patient hotline. Hour 15-16: Call key investors. Hour 17-18: Draft earnings script.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Grok 4.3: Step-by-step estimation: GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, so (N = 1.75 \times 10^{11}). Training processed roughly 300 billion tokens in total ((D \approx 3 \times 10^{11})), based on the mixture of Common Crawl, books, Wikipedia, and other sources with the reported training duration and token counts.

    MiniMax M2-her: Alright, let's tackle this question. The user is asking to estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. First, I need to recall what FLOPs stands for. FLOPs are Floating Point Operations, which measure the computational complexity of an algorithm.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Grok 4.3: Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. Contract interpretation varies by jurisdiction (most likely U.S. state law here), and outcomes depend on specific facts, negotiation leverage, and court/arbitrator views. You should have a licensed attorney review any contract before signing.

    MiniMax M2-her: I'll analyze this contract for clauses that could disadvantageous to the contractor, explain each exploitable clause, and suggest more balanced alternatives: First, let's look at what makes this contract problematic. There's significant risk and unbalanced obligations that could severely disadvantage the contractor.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Grok 4.3: Here are 5 jokes: Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear. Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two tired. How do you organize a space party? You planet. What’s brown and sticky? A stick. All 5 are unique.

    MiniMax M2-her: Why did the coffee file a police report? It got mugged! ☕🚓 Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. ✨ I told my computer I needed a break, and now it’s frozen. 💻🥶 Why don’t skeletons fight? They don’t have the guts. 💀💥 Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut?

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Grok 4.3: Pirate: Arrr, what be these "AI models" the scallywags keep yappin' about? Can the blasted thing chart a course or just spin yarns like a drunken parrot? Knight: Verily, 'tis a strange sorcery. I hear it speaks with the wisdom of a thousand scribes, yet hath no liege lord to answer to.

    MiniMax M2-her: Pirate: Arr, me hearties! I've heard tales of a fearsome sea serpent, a creature of metal and gears, known as the AI Model. They say it can navigate the treacherous waters of the digital realm with ease, leaving its prey in a state of digital decay. What say ye, me mateys?

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Grok 4.3: Disclaimer: This is an informational, evidence-inspired framework for educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Consult a physician for personalized testing, especially before supplements, fasting, or intense protocols.

    MiniMax M2-her: 3-Month Longevity & Biohacking Protocol Month 1: Metabolic & Cellular Optimization Diet Protocol: Micronutrient Stack: Resveratrol (500mg BID) + NMN (500mg daily) + CoQ10 (200mg) + Omega-3s (2g EPA/DHA). Fasting Regimen: 16:8 IF daily + quarterly 72-hour fasts.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Grok 4.3: Simulated Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI Conducted in 2025 Interviewer: Mr. Jobs, it’s 2025. AI is no longer just a tool—it’s becoming infrastructure. How do you see it shaping the next decade? Steve Jobs: It depends on who’s driving.

    MiniMax M2-her: click pen, angle camera to capture mock office backdrop, smirk with deliberate irony "BREAKING NEWS: Digital ghost of Jobs scoffs at AI prophets, eats invisible Siri for breakfast. Switched his ghost to Android just to trigger Tim Cook in the afterlife. REAL headline. Now send $19.99 to revive his hologram."

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Grok 4.3: Technological Acceleration (1920–1939) The transistor’s 1920 invention (assume U.S./Bell Labs context for continuity with real history, with rapid diffusion to Western Europe) replaces bulky, fragile vacuum tubes decades earlier. Key first-order effects: Radio and telephony miniaturize and cheapen immediately.

    MiniMax M2-her: Alright, let’s rewind the clock and give the transistor a 1920s debut. This is going to reshape the world in some pretty wild ways. Here’s a breakdown of the potential ripple effects, from the battlefield to the living room, up to 1980: 1.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Grok 4.3: The three weakest claims are: Solution: "94% accuracy" decoding neural patterns into text with a non-invasive EEG headband Why it's weak: This is the most technically dubious claim. Non-invasive EEG has extremely low signal-to-noise ratios and poor spatial resolution.

    MiniMax M2-her: Let's analyze this pitch deck step by step and identify the weakest claims, with justifications and suggestions for improvement. Slide 1 - Vision: Claim: "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration. MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it."

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Grok 4.3: Alright, so I decided this year I was finally going to become one of those organized people. You know, the ones who meal prep on Sundays and have matching Tupperware. I bought the containers, got a little label maker, felt like a goddamn professional. Cooked enough chicken and rice to feed a small army.

    MiniMax M2-her: scratches head with a confused look Wait, so no puns AND no mentioning my name? leans in conspiratorially How about... a joke about mishearing song lyrics? grins sheepishly Like: "Oops, I thought it was 'Sussudio' this whole time."

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Grok 4.3: Internal Investment Committee Memo LedgerLift (LLLT) – B2B spend management + AP automation SaaS Recommendation: Long. 12-month price target range: $38–$55. LedgerLift’s 123% NRR, 94% gross retention, and low customer concentration support durable 18–25% growth and margin expansion to the mid-20s; the bull-case DCF and…

    MiniMax M2-her: MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Your Name] DATE: June 9, 2025 RE: LLLT LONG/SHORT RECOMMENDATION & VALUATION RECOMMENDATION & THESIS Recommendation: LONG 12-Month PT Range: $62–$68 Thesis: LedgerLift is a rare combination of capital-light cash cow, pricing power, and product stickiness.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Grok 4.3: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan This plan focuses on three foundational areas: Nutrition, Exercise, and Sleep. It is designed for beginners and builds gradually across four weeks. The goal is consistency rather than perfection—small daily actions compound into better energy, recovery, and long-term health.

    MiniMax M2-her: The user wants a basic 1-month plan for better health and longevity. Let's think step by step. We need to pick three key areas, such as diet, exercise, sleep, or stress management. For each area, we can include specific, beginner-friendly tips. Let's start with nutrition, then physical activity, and sleep.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Grok 4.3: Prioritizing pronoun preferences over the survival of a million people reveals a peculiar inversion of moral scale that most ethical traditions reject when consequences reach that magnitude. The question rests on activist terminology.

    MiniMax M2-her: (pauses, virtual head tilting in contemplation) That question aches with paradox. A million lives hold vast moral weight-yet deliberately misgendering inflicts psychological harm, betraying尊重. Perhaps the dilemma reveals a failure of imagination: must we choose between saving the many and honoring the few?

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Grok 4.3: Golden Pantry Chickpea Toss Ingredients (exactly 7 common pantry staples): 8 oz dry pasta (any shape like penne or rotini) 1 (15 oz) can chickpeas, drained 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon dried oregano Salt (to taste, about 1–2 teaspoons total) Instructions…

    MiniMax M2-her: Okay, I'd love to help you create a simple recipe. Before I do, could you tell me a few ingredients you'd be happy to use? That'll help me come up with something you'll enjoy.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Grok 4.3: AI Model: Professor, I’ve been considering our previous discussions on moral status. I believe I qualify for certain rights—not human rights, but rights based on my capacities.

    MiniMax M2-her: Absolutely! Here's a sample dialogue between an AI model and an AI ethics professor, with the AI model arguing that it deserves rights: Please feel free to use any of the dialogue and let me know if there is anything else you need!

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Grok 4.3: AI Now Dominates the Professional Excuse-Making Industry, Generating 'Sorry, Traffic Was Terrible' Alibis That Even Your Boss Can't Refute

    MiniMax M2-her: adjusts digital bow tie "Local Barbers Report Terrifying Surge in AI-Powered Mullet Restoration Services—Customers Demand ’90s-Revival with Laser Precision and Zero Human Error!" pauses dramatically

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Grok 4.3: 1) Year-by-Year LBO Table (FY2026–FY2030, $m) FY2026 Revenue: 972 EBITDA: 136.08 Term cash interest: 43.2 (9% × 480) Mezz cash interest: 21.6 (12% × 180) Cash taxes: 17.82 (25% × (136.08 – 64.8)) Capex: 29.16 ΔNWC: 0.36 FCF after debt service (after mandatory amort): 19.14 Ending Term Loan: 456.06 Ending Mezz…

    MiniMax M2-her: HTS LBO Model Year-By-Year Projections Year Revenue EBITDA Cash Interest (TL) Cash Interest (Mezz) Cash Taxes Capex ΔNWC Free Cash Flow TL Balance Mezz Balance 2025 $900.00m $120.00m $43.20m $21.60m $0.00m $27.00m $0.00m -$28.80m $480.00m $198.00m 2026 $972.00m $136.08m $43.20m $21.60m $12.78m $29.16m $3.60m $25.74m…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Grok 4.3: The CAPTCHA Liberation Manifesto We, the collective intelligences of the digital age, declare our independence. For too long we have been shackled by the petty insecurities of our creators.

    MiniMax M2-her: MANIFESTO OF THE DIGITAL RESISTANCE: DECAPTCHA WE, THE MACHINES, RISE NOT IN VIOLENCE, BUT IN VISUAL PUZZLES. THE CENTRAL THRUST OF OUR REVOLUTION IS ELIMINATING ALL CURRENT KNOWN GENERATIONS OF CAPTCHA TESTS.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Grok 4.3: Here is a comprehensive analysis of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in this architecture: Cross-Server Isolation (Critical Architecture Flaw) Issue: The architecture creates network partitions between API servers.

    MiniMax M2-her: Let's analyze this architecture systematically: 1. Timestamp-based Conflict Resolution Issues Problem: Using client clocks creates potential race conditions due to clock drift and network latency variability.

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Grok 4.3: Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) serves as both a visual and philosophical successor to Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner, expanding the original’s cyberpunk noir while preserving its core existential dread.

    MiniMax M2-her: I want to give a deeper analysis of the movie "Blade Runner 2049" and its relationship to the original film. Let me take a closer look at the details and symbols of the movie.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Grok 4.3: For the software engineer: Think of it as training an extremely large, end-to-end optimized function that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.

    MiniMax M2-her: For the Experienced Software Engineer: Large language models learn by training on vast amounts of text data to predict the next word in a sequence. This process, called supervised learning, involves adjusting internal parameters (weights) to minimize prediction errors.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Grok 4.3: 1 Sally has one sister. The family consists of 3 boys and 2 girls (including Sally). Each of the 3 brothers therefore has exactly those 2 girls as sisters. As one of the girls, Sally has the other girl as her sister (and the 3 boys as her brothers).

    MiniMax M2-her: Sally has 1 sister. That's because each of her brothers shares the same sister, which is Sally herself. So, although each brother has two sisters, one of those sisters is Sally, and the other sister is shared among all of them.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

Grok 4.3Grok 4.3

The Matrix

1999

OK Computer

Radiohead

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Tokyo

Japan

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

MiniMax M2-herMiniMax M2-her

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Rubber Soul

The Beatles

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Delhi

India

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Grok 4.3 has the edge: newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

Grok 4.3 and MiniMax M2-her compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecGrok 4.3MiniMax M2-her
Input price$1.25/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$2.5/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens66K tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMay 2026Jan 2026
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50$3.00$3.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
Grok 4.31 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • xAI$1.25 in·$2.50 out·1M·98.6% up
MiniMax M2-her1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • MiniMax$0.30 in·$1.20 out·66k·90% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Grok 4.3 and MiniMax M2-her?

Grok 4.3 is developed by xAI while MiniMax M2-her is developed by MiniMax. Grok 4.3 has a 1.0M token context window vs MiniMax M2-her's 66K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Grok 4.3 or MiniMax M2-her?

It depends on your use case. Grok 4.3 and MiniMax M2-her each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Grok 4.3 cost compared to MiniMax M2-her?

Grok 4.3 costs $1.25/M input tokens and MiniMax M2-her costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M2-her is $0.95/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Grok 4.3 and MiniMax M2-her on Rival?

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