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MiniMax M3 (MiniMax)
minimax·minimax/minimax-m3-3·GA·Open weights·minimax series·NEW
MiniMax multimodal model for long-context coding, perception, and agent planning
At a glance
Reference price$0.60 / $2.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.12 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.60 / $2.40
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context512,000
Output limit131,072
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImageVideo
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-06-01 / 2026-06-01
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway minimax/minimax-m3 | Gateway | $0.60 | $2.40 | $0.12 | — | 512,000 | 131,072 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$182.40
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = max
Related models
MiniMax H3same series—MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5same series$0.30 / $1.20MiniMax-M3same series$0.30 / $1.20DeepSeek V4 Procheaper alternative$0.435 / $0.87DeepSeek V4 Flashcheaper alternative$0.14 / $0.28GPT-5.6 Lunacheaper alternative$0.20 / $1.20
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.60Output list $2.40Min blended $1.05
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.