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MiniMax-M3 — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

OPEN SOURCEMiniMax
Input Cost
$0.30/1M
Output Cost
$1.2/1M
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
512K
Accepts
text, image, video

MiniMax-M3 by MiniMax demonstrates competitive pricing. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

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General Benchmarks

AA Intelligence Index
29.629th of 66

Artificial Analysis composite intelligence score across 10 sub-benchmarks

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)

Coding Benchmarks

Design Arena ELO
123731st of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
AA Coding Index
58.633rd of 96

Artificial Analysis composite coding score

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)
Website Arena ELO
127126th of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)

Reasoning Benchmarks

AA Agentic Index
30.825th of 70

Artificial Analysis composite score for multi-step tool-using tasks

Artificial Analysis (via OpenRouter)
GPQA Diamond
90.6%11th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers
τ²-Bench Airline
71.0%46th of 93

Multi-turn service agent making tool calls under strict policy constraints

OpenRouter (measured)

Cost Benchmarks

Input Cost
$0.30204th of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$1.2209th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API
Cached Input Cost
$0.0649th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
1.0M18th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Available from 46 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 7 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
Kenari$0$01.0M
MiniMax Token Plan (minimaxi.com)$0$0$01.0M
MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io)$0$0$01.0M
Nvidia$0$01.0M
SCNet Token Plan$0$0$01.0M
Volcengine Ark Coding Plan$0$0$01.0M
EmpirioLabs AI$0.225$0.9$0.0451.0M
Weights & Biases$0.23$0.96$0.05262K
Vancine$0.24$0.96$0.0481.0M
Deep Infra$0.28$1.1$0.056524KSupported
Lilac$0.28$1.1$0.051.0M
Abacus$0.3$1.21.0M
ClinePass$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
Eden AI$0.3$1.2$0.06524K
Fireworks AI$0.3$1.2$0.06512KSupported
Hugging Face$0.3$1.2524KSupported
Jalapeno Cloud$0.3$1.2524K
Kilo Gateway$0.3$1.2$0.06524K
LLM Gateway$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
Merge Gateway$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
MiniMax (minimaxi.com)$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
MiniMax (minimax.io)$0.3$1.2$0.061.0MSupported
NanoGPT$0.3$1.2$0.06512K
Nebius Token Factory$0.3$1.21.0M
OpenCode Go$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
OpenCode Zen$0.3$1.2$0.06512K
OpenRouter$0.3$1.2$0.061.0MSupported
OrcaRouter$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
Pioneer$0.3$1.2$0.061.0M
Together AI$0.3$1.2$0.06524KSupported
Venice AI$0.3$1.2$0.06524K
Vercel AI Gateway$0.3$1.2$0.06512KSupported
Charm Hyper$0.32664$1.30656$0.064239512K
CrossModel$0.33$1.32$0.0661.0M
Wafer$0.33$1.32$0.071.0M
Cortecs$0.395$1.977$0.0991.0M
Requesty$0.4$2$0.11.0M
TensorX$0.4$2$0.11.0M
GMI Cloud$0.6$2.4$0.121.0M
Ofox$0.6$2.4$0.121.0M
Opper$0.6$2.4$0.121.0M
Synthetic$0.6$1.2$0.6524K
ZenMux$0.6$2.41.0M
302.AI$0.72$2.881.0M
Ollama Cloud512K

MiniMax-M3 — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

MiniMax-M3 — Frequently Asked Questions

How much does MiniMax-M3 cost?

MiniMax-M3 costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens. This makes it one of the more affordable models.

What is the context window of MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 has a context window of 1.0M tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 was created by MiniMax. It is classified as a open source model in our catalogue.

Is MiniMax-M3 open source?

Yes, MiniMax-M3 is an open-source model. The model weights are publicly available for download and self-hosting.