MiniMax M3 API pricing.
MiniMax M3 is MiniMax’s model on the API market, released 31 May 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
Each bar is this model's score in that area. The white tick marks the best score any model Epoch has tested reaches there.
The index combines many benchmarks into one general-capability score; the range is how sure Epoch is of the number. Each area score is this site's average of the model's Epoch results in that area, where 0 is what guessing would score and 100 is perfect. Compare every model, and value for money →
Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (licensed CC BY 4.0). Data refreshed 2 November 2026. These are Epoch's own tests; other benchmark sites can rank models differently.
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Models within 5 points of MiniMax M3 on Epoch's Capabilities Index that cost less, comparing a typical chat mix (three parts input to one part output). A few points of index is a small difference and says nothing about your task: a place to start testing, not a verdict. Capability against price for every model.
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Model id
minimax/minimax-m3- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.20
- Cached input
- $0.060
- Context window
- 1.0M tokens
- Maximum output
- 512K tokens
- Takes
- text, image, video
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Released
- 31 May 2026
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $0.30 per million input tokens, MiniMax M3 is dearer than 143 of the 340 models on the price list.
No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
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- MiniMax M3.1 Flash$0.15 in · $0.60 out
- MiniMax-01$0.20 in · $1.10 out
- MiniMax M2$0.26 in · $1.02 out
- MiniMax M2.5$0.27 in · $0.95 out
- MiniMax M2.7$0.30 in · $1.20 out
- MiniMax M2-her$0.30 in · $1.20 out
- MiniMax M2.1$0.30 in · $1.20 out
- MiniMax M1$0.55 in · $2.20 out
Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 2 Nov 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.