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Updated Sep 2026

Grok 4.7vsMiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 is cheaper than Grok 4.7 at $0.3/M vs $1.6/M input tokens.

Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3 compared across 10 shared prompts
SpecGrok 4.7MiniMax M3
Input price$1.6/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$4.8/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window500K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2026Jun 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 5 of the 10 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Grok 4.7129 words
Pantry Gold Honey Biscuits A sweet, buttery, slightly salty biscuit that tastes like it took more effort than it did. Ingredients (7) 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ¼ cup sugar ½ cup butter (cold) ¾ cup milk 2 tbsp honey Time: about 10 minutes prep, 12–15 minutes bake Instructions Heat the…
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MiniMax M3287 words
🌟 Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots 🌟 A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots – 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter – 3 tablespoons Honey – 2 tablespoons Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Salt – ½ teaspoon Black…
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Grok 4.71,399 words
This design will lose edits, split users into inconsistent views, and fall over under concurrent writing. The core problems are clock-based conflict resolution, per-server WebSocket fan-out, polling as the sync path, and treating documents as full HTML snapshots.
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MiniMax M31,434 words
Architectural Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical flaws that would manifest as data loss, poor UX, and a system that breaks down at modest scale. I'll group findings by severity.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Grok 4.7599 words
Three weakest claims 1. “Predict what you want to type before you think it” (Slide 1) This is scientifically incoherent, not just ambitious. Non-invasive EEG decodes neural activity that is already underway (motor imagery, attempted speech, attention).
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MiniMax M3941 words
Three Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Slide 3: "94% accuracy… Works with any language, any device" Why it's weak: This is the most technically implausible claim in the deck, and the kind of line that causes sophisticated investors (especially those with BCI or ML backgrounds) to stop reading.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Grok 4.7442 words
1-month beginner plan for better health and longevity Focus on three foundations: nutrition, movement, and sleep. Aim for consistency over perfection. If you have a medical condition, check with a clinician before big changes. Week-by-week rhythm Week 1: Build awareness and one easy habit in each area.
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MiniMax M3644 words
🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan The best plan is one you can actually stick to. This 4-week guide focuses on three foundational pillars — the ones with the biggest impact on how you feel today and how well you age over decades. Each week builds gently on the last.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Grok 4.71,173 words
1. Experienced software engineer An LLM is a stateless function from a token sequence to a probability distribution over the next token. Training is a giant batch job: you stream text, run a forward pass, compare the predicted distribution to the actual next token with cross-entropy, and push gradients through billions…
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MiniMax M31,248 words
For the experienced software engineer Here's the cleanest way to think about it: a frontier LLM is a lossy compression of the training corpus, and inference is querying that compressed representation.
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Our Verdict
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

MiniMax M3 costs 4.0x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Grok 4.7
Input
$1.60
Output
$4.80
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
5.3× cheaper
Output
$1.20
4.0× cheaper

MiniMax M3 is cheaper on both: 5.3× input, 4.0× output.

Where to run it

14 hosts, cheapest first

Grok 4.71 host
HostInOutContextUptime
xAI$1.60 in·$4.80 out·500k·99% up
MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·99.5% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.6% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·99% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·95.5% upMiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·98.8% upNNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.2% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
SStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·98.8% upTTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.7% upMMara$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·89.9% upSSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·97.6% upMModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·99.9% upPParasailfp8degraded$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·96.1% upVVenicefp8degraded$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·65.2% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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Grok 4.7 is developed by xAI while MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax. Grok 4.7 has a 500K token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 10 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 10 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Grok 4.7 costs $1.6/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $1.30/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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