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MiniMax-M3

Provided by Minimax
Pay-as-you-go Dynamic pricing 2 tiers

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks. Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.

Model specs

Context length
Max output
I/O modalities
Released
2026-05

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Tiered pricing

Unit: /1M Tokens

Tier Input /1M Tokens Output /1M Tokens Cache read /1M Tokens
standard Length ≤ 512K $0.6000 $2.4000 $0.1200
long_context Length > 512K $1.2000 $4.8000 $0.2400

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Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

Share of the same prefix read repeatedly, up to 100%

One endpoint, a testable decision

Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.