How much does MiniMax M3 cost?

MiniMax M3 costs $0.23/M input tokens and $0.96/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.05/M tokens.

What is the context length of MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3 has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 262,144 completion tokens.

Does MiniMax M3 support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. MiniMax M3 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does MiniMax M3 support?

MiniMax M3 accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.

Which providers serve MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3 is served by 6 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra, CoreWeave, GMICloud, Venice, Parasail, and MiniMax. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

When was MiniMax M3 released?

MiniMax M3 was released on May 31, 2026.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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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.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.23 / $0.96per 1M

Context

1.0M

Released

May 31, 2026

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


	$0.23	$0.96	$0.05	0.49s	115 tok/s	100.00%
	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06	0.80s	52 tok/s	99.09%
20% off	$0.30$0.24	$1.20$0.96	$0.06$0.048	2.87s	54 tok/s	99.92%
	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06	1.71s	40 tok/s	100.00%
	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06	0.74s	99 tok/s	99.39%
	$0.28	$1.10	$0.056	1.06s	42 tok/s	99.14%
Fast	$0.45	$1.80	$0.09	0.75s	105 tok/s	99.75%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Flex	$0.224	$0.88	$0.0448	1.80s	29 tok/s	98.43%

Input $0.23Output $0.96
115 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.30Output $1.20
52 tok/s99.09% uptime
Input $0.24Output $0.96
20% off
54 tok/s99.92% uptime
Input $0.30Output $1.20
40 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.30Output $1.20
99 tok/s99.39% uptime
Input $0.28Output $1.10
42 tok/s99.14% uptime
Input $0.45Output $1.80
Fast
105 tok/s99.75% uptime
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Input $0.224Output $0.88
Flex
29 tok/s98.43% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.07521/M tokens

Output

$1.131/M tokens

MiniMax M3 — Price history

Price history

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		$0.0671	$0.959	90.1%	8.5%
		$0.0686	$1.200	96.4%	79.3%
		$0.0903	$0.959	77.6%	6.8%
		$0.1028	$1.099	79.1%	0.8%
		$0.1252	$1.199	72.8%	0.7%
		$0.1803	$1.200	49.9%	1.0%
	Fast	$0.1934	$1.800	71.3%	2.9%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
	Flex	$0.1110	$0.879	62.9%	0.1%

Effective in $0.0671Effective out $0.959
Token share
8.5%
Effective in $0.0686Effective out $1.200
Token share
79.3%
Effective in $0.0903Effective out $0.959
Token share
6.8%
Effective in $0.1028Effective out $1.099
Token share
0.8%
Effective in $0.1252Effective out $1.199
Token share
0.7%
Effective in $0.1803Effective out $1.200
Token share
1.0%
Effective in $0.1934Effective out $1.800
FastToken share
2.9%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Effective in $0.1110Effective out $0.879
FlexToken share
0.1%

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput

115tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.49s

P50, best provider

Latency / throughput

AutoExacto benchmarks

GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchDeepInfra94.5%--Parasail90.7%74.6%MiniMax90.6%74.1%ModelRun90.4%74.2%Together91.4%72.9%Parasail (Fast)91.1%70.0%

+9 more providers

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.88%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.88%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.83%

Without Routing

98.07%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Intelligence Index	18.9
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Coding Index	58.6
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Agentic Index	29.5
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 GPQA Diamond	92.9%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 HLE	39.0%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 IFBench	82.9%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 τ²-Bench Telecom	88.9%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 AA-LCR	83.0%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 τ-Bench Banking	15.3%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 GDPval-AA	37.5%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 CritPt	3.7%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 SciCode	47.1%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Terminal-Bench Hard	42.4%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Terminal-Bench 4.0	2.0%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 Terminal-Bench 2.1	65.2%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 AA-Omniscience Accuracy	44.9%
Artificial Analysis	MiniMax-M3 AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate	8.6%
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Agenticgamedev Elo	1110
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo	1156
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Blender3d Elo	1089
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Codetovideo Elo	1202
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo	1173
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo	1076
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo	1169
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Pdf Elo	1262
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo	1171
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo	1161
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Agents Arena Webapps Elo	1187
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena 3D Elo	1190
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena Asciiart Elo	1149
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena Code Categories Elo	1236
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo	1229
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena Game Development Elo	1200
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena SVG Elo	1146
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena UI Component Elo	1235
Design Arena	MiniMax M3 Models Arena Website Elo	1249
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Access to Justice Benchmark	69.8%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Code Migration v1.1	20.9%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 CorpFin v2	68.1%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 CyberBench v1.1	65.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 EMB v1.1	59.8%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Finance Agent v2.1	54.3%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vals Finance Index	48.4%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Financial Coaching Bench	69.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 GPQA Diamond	92.7%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1	4.2%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Immigration	57.5%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vals Inference Provider Index	53.5%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 LiveCodeBench	82.2%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 LegalBench	85.4%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Legal Research Bench	29.8%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 MedCode	46.3%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 MedScribe	87.3%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 MMLU Pro	84.2%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 MMMU Pro	81.2%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 MortgageTax	68.4%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 ProofBench v1.1	18.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Public Benefits Bench v1.1	64.1%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 SAGE	85.5%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 SkillsBench	51.5%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 SWE-bench	75.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 SWE-bench Multimodal	33.3%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Tax Agent Bench	20.6%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 TaxEval v2	72.7%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Terminal-Bench 4.0	1.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vals Index	36.5%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vals Multimodal Index	60.0%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vibe Code Bench 1-100	9.2%
Vals AI	MiniMax-M3 Vibe Code Bench v1.1	47.6%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

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1.44Ttokens

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

451Btokens

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

156Btokens

Kilo Code

Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI to help developers ship code faster with agentic workflows.

73.8Btokens

Mira

Mira is a Telegram-native AI assistant.

71.1Btokens

Top 5 Apps

37.4B

Rest of OpenRouter

13.3B

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