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MiniMax M3 Thinking
minimax·minimax/minimax-m3-thinking·GA·Open weights·minimax series·NEW
MiniMax multimodal model for long-context coding, perception, and agent planning
At a glance
Reference price$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M
Cache read $0.06 · NanoGPT
Lowest paid$0.30 / $1.20
NanoGPT Gateway
Context512,000
Output limit80,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImage
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT minimax/minimax-m3:thinking | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.06 | — | 512,000 | 80,000 |
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
1NanoGPT$91.20
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
Upstream provides no control info
1 / 1 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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