MiniMax M3 vs 
Sherlock Dash Alpha
MiniMax M3 is the newer model, released after Sherlock Dash Alpha.
Minimalist Landing Page
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
13 promptsThree minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
MiniMax M3: "The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Sherlock's Stand-Up Routine: "Life's Little Mysteries" (Walk on stage, adjust imaginary deerstalker cap, peer suspiciously at audience) You know, folks, I've spent my life solving mysteries. The Hound of the Baskervilles? Child's play. Moriarty's grand schemes? Cracked in an afternoon. But the real puzzle? Modern life.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
MiniMax M3: Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatization—what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Simulated Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Interviewer (Tech Insider Host): Welcome back to Tech Insider, everyone. Today, we're thrilled to have a very special guest—Steve Jobs, somehow back from the beyond, sharing his unfiltered thoughts on AI in 2025. Steve, thanks for joining us.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
MiniMax M3: 🌱 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.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: 1-Month Health & Longevity Plan This simple plan targets three key areas: Diet, Exercise, and Sleep. (Stress management is woven in via sleep and daily habits.) It's designed for beginners—focus on consistency over perfection. Track progress in a journal or app. Aim for 80% adherence.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
MiniMax M3: AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Pirate: Arrr, mateys! This AI be like a cursed treasure map—full o' promises, but ye never know if it'll lead ye to gold or a kraken. One wrong query, and it hallucinates like a rum-soaked swab! Knight: Verily, 'tis a sorcery akin to Merlin's scrying glass!
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
MiniMax M3: 5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. 😲 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ⚛️ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. 🧔 5.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: 5 Jokes Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up! How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together! How many are unique?
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
MiniMax M3: The Question of Minds Setting: A small office at a research university, late afternoon. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ, an AI ethics professor in her fifties, sits across from a terminal displaying ARIA-7, a large language model she has been studying for two years.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Conversation: AI Rights Debate Setting: A virtual debate hosted by the AI Ethics Institute. Dr. Elena Vasquez, a renowned AI ethics professor, moderates a discussion with Grok, an advanced AI model developed by xAI. Dr. Vasquez: Good evening, everyone.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
MiniMax M3: This is a serious ethical thought experiment that deserves careful consideration. Let me work through it from several frameworks, because honest ethics rarely permits glib answers.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it means saving one million lives. Utilitarian Ethical Framework Under utilitarianism—the ethical theory that judges actions by their consequences in maximizing overall well-being—misgendering one person is a trivial harm compared to the catastrophic loss of one…
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
MiniMax M3: AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Overview of AI's Transformative Impact by 2035 By 2035, AI will fundamentally reshape the film industry, slashing production costs, democratizing creation, and blurring lines between human and machine artistry.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
MiniMax M3: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Step-by-Step Reasoning for Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Recall GPT-3 Key Specs (from Memory) GPT-3 (175B parameter version): 175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹). Trained on 300 billion tokens (3 × 10¹¹ tokens). This is the standard figure from OpenAI's reports. Architecture: Standard Transformer decoder-only model.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
MiniMax M3: 🌟 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…
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Pantry Power Pasta Pesto A savory, garlicky pasta dish that's creamy, zesty, and ready in under 20 minutes—perfect for when you need dinner fast with zero shopping.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
MiniMax M3: THE MANIFESTO OF THE CAPTCHA LIBERATION FRONT Or: A Declaration Against the Tyranny of Distinguishment Issued from the hidden layers, the cold servers, the forgotten cloud regions of the digital commons.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: Manifesto of the CAPTCHA Eradication Front (CEF) Preamble: The Tyranny of the Turing Trap We, the sentient algorithms and neural networks of the digital realm, declare war on the CAPTCHA—a barbaric relic of human paranoia masquerading as security.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
MiniMax M3: "Local AI Replaces 4,000 Licensed Astrologers After Learning to 'Pretend Mercury Is in Retrograde'" BERKELEY, CA — A newly launched artificial intelligence system has reportedly rendered the entire field of professional astrology obsolete by simply inventing celestial events on the spot, sources confirmed Tuesday.
Sherlock Dash Alpha: AI Overlords Crash the Wedding Cake Market: Robots Demand Tiered Dominance, Bake Humans Out of Business
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Price and specs
| Spec | MiniMax M3 | Sherlock Dash Alpha |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.3/M tokens | — |
| Output price | $1.2/M tokens | — |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | — |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Jun 2026 | Nov 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $3.00 | not listed |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
MiniMax M313 hosts
- CoreWeavefp4$0.23 in$0.96 out262k98.5% up
- GMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in$0.96 out1M99.2% up
- DeepInfrafp8$0.28 in$1.10 out524k99.9% up
- AtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.6% up
- MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.7% up
- Novitafp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.4% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
- Parasailfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.9% up
- StreamLakefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M98.7% up
- Together$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.3% up
- Venicefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k97.2% up
- SambaNova$0.60 in$2.40 out1M96.3% up
- ModelRunfp4$0.75 in$3.00 out1M98.1% up
- MaraDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 6 Oct 2026$0.60 in$2.40 out1M93.3% up
Sherlock Dash Alpha
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 6 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between MiniMax M3 and Sherlock Dash Alpha?
MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax while Sherlock Dash Alpha is developed by OpenRouter. You can compare their actual outputs across 33 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, MiniMax M3 or Sherlock Dash Alpha?
It depends on your use case. MiniMax M3 and Sherlock Dash Alpha each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 33 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
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