MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Analysis Summary
MiniMax M3 is a frontier-adjacent model from MiniMax with an intelligence index of 44.4, placing it in the excellent tier. It supports text, image, and video input alongside tool use and function calling, giving it one of the broadest modality profiles in this batch. Its instruction following score is among the highest here, and its agentic and coding indices are both strong.
For businesses, it is well-suited to content generation, multimodal analysis, agentic pipelines, and coding assistance. The video input capability is a differentiator for teams working with multimedia content. Its main limitation is that it sits just below the very top tier on raw reasoning benchmarks.
At $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens, it offers strong price-performance for a model at this capability level. Teams needing broad modality support and strong agentic capability at a competitive price should evaluate it seriously, though enterprise procurement teams should verify provider support arrangements for their region.
Assessed June 30, 2026
Editorial notes
MiniMax M3 delivers excellent reasoning, coding, and agentic performance with vision, video input, tool use, and a 1M context window at $0.30 input per million tokens.
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Performance Profile
How MiniMax: MiniMax M3 compares
MiniMax: MiniMax M3 ranks #15 of 385 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #20 of 129 for coding, #36 of 293 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 97% of the models we list. At $0.30 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 44% of comparable models.
About MiniMax: MiniMax M3
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,..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
minimax/minimax-m3
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| Provider | minimax |
| Release Date | May 31, 2026 |
| Context Length | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max Completion | 512,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
| Output | $1.20 | $0.001200 |
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Frequently asked questions about MiniMax: MiniMax M3
How much does MiniMax: MiniMax M3 cost?
MiniMax: MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of MiniMax: MiniMax M3?
MiniMax: MiniMax M3 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
Is MiniMax: MiniMax M3 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, MiniMax: MiniMax M3 ranks #20 of 129 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can MiniMax: MiniMax M3 do?
MiniMax: MiniMax M3 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created MiniMax: MiniMax M3?
MiniMax: MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax and was released on May 31, 2026.
