MiniMax M3

MiniMax's multimodal reasoning model for long-context coding, perception, and agent planning.

Input price: $0.30–$0.33
Output price: $1.20–$1.32

Context: 1M
Max output: 524K
Modalities: InputTextImageVideoOutputText

Capability: 147 (#55 of 75)
Human preference: 1431
30-day uptime: —

Released: 2026-06-01
Knowledge cutoff: —

Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

AutoInput$0.30–$0.33Output$1.20–$1.32Cache read$0.06–$0.066Context1MMax output524KWe send each request to the best-priced healthy provider. You pay that provider’s price.Fireworks AICheapestInput$0.30Output$1.20Cache read$0.06United StatesNo trainingNo retentionMiniMaxInput$0.33Output$1.32Cache read$0.066ChinaNo training

Pricing

Prices vary by provider. Showing Fireworks AI, the lowest. Pick a provider above to see its prices.

Input: $0.30; per 1M tokens
Output: $1.20; per 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.06; per 1M tokens

Try it

Runs on your balance and is billed like any API request.

curl https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OHMYGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "minimax/minimax-m3",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello"
      }
    ]
  }'

import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["OHMYGPT_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/minimax-m3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.OHMYGPT_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1",
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "minimax/minimax-m3",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

The answer streams in here.

Billed by usage

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Price: our current input price per 1M tokens in USD, lowest across channels. Dated snapshots and resold copies of the same model are merged into one point; free models are not shown.

Shaded area: capability above and price below the median of all models. Pareto frontier: no other model is both cheaper and more capable.

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Capability: 147
Input: $0.30–$0.33
Output: $1.20–$1.32

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Output: $1.50

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Input: $0.3212
Output: $1.1242

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Input: $0.33
Output: $1.32

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Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-10-28): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text