Reasoning specialists from Z.ai, MiniMax, and DeepSeek. The reasoning benchmarks lead the band; effort tiers are noted where a model exposes them.Last reviewed 2026-07-17.
Z.ai's frontier reasoning model for long-context agents and software engineering.
MiniMax's multimodal foundation model for long-horizon agentic work.
Open-source 1.6T-parameter MoE with 49B active, built for advanced reasoning and long-horizon agents.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
MiniMax M3 has the lowest blended list price. Per 1M tokens: GLM 5.2 at $0.78 in / $2.44 out; MiniMax M3 at $0.30 in / $1.20 out; DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.43 in / $0.87 out.
GLM 5.2 leads with 1M tokens. The other two: MiniMax M3 at 524K, DeepSeek V4 Pro at 1M.
MiniMax M3 accept images; the others do not.
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