MiniMax M3
minimax/minimax-m3
MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax.
Key facts
- Input price
- $0.30 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.20 / 1M tokens
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 512K tokens
- Accepts
- Text, Images, Video
- Returns
- Text
Example: 1,000 requests with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each would cost about $0.90 (1M input tokens × $0.30 + 0.5M output tokens × $1.20). Estimate your own usage.
Prices are the provider’s own per-token rates with zero markup, from our price list as of Oct 18, 2026. If a call has extra provider charges (images, audio, web search, cached prompts), you pay the reported cost.
Call it from your code
curl https://api.tokenctr.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKENCENTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "minimax/minimax-m3", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'Works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK: set the base URL to https://api.tokenctr.com/v1. Quickstart
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis
- Intelligence index
- 29.2
- Coding index
- 58.6
- Agentic index
- 29.5
Design Arena
| Category | Rank | Elo | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agents: HTML slides | 12 | 1180 | 46.6% |
| Agents: Slides (python-pptx) | 14 | 1204 | 46.8% |
| Agents: Agentic game dev | 19 | 1158 | 44.6% |
| Agents: Full-stack | 19 | 1197 | 47.3% |
| Agents: Web apps | 21 | 1193 | 47.1% |
| Agents: Android native | 23 | 1171 | 44.3% |
| Agents: Mobile apps | 23 | 1166 | 45.9% |
| Models: ASCII art | 35 | 1164 | 46.8% |
| Models: Websites | 37 | 1259 | 51.9% |
| Models: SVG | 39 | 1160 | 45.2% |
| Models: Code | 40 | 1249 | 50.9% |
| Models: Data visualization | 41 | 1236 | 51.3% |
| Models: UI components | 41 | 1246 | 50.9% |
| Models: 3D | 46 | 1209 | 50.2% |
| Models: Game dev | 46 | 1214 | 45.9% |
Source: Artificial Analysis indexes and Design Arena results as published in OpenRouter’s model data, fetched Oct 15, 2026. Higher is better. Not measured by TokenCenter. See all rankings.