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# MiniMax: MiniMax M3 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> MiniMax: MiniMax M3: $0.300/M in, $1.20/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# MiniMax M3

MiniMax · released 2026-05-31 · mit

 $0.525 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+6.4** on the capability index and **80% cheaper** ($0.105/M against $0.525/M). What you lose:

 - 512K → 384K max output
- no image, video input

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.300 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.20 /M |
| Cached input | $0.060 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 45.4 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 58.6 |
| Agentic | 36.1 |
| LMArena Elo | 1434.8 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - python-pptxslides #10 of 35 1241
- agenticgamedev #13 of 34 1179
- htmlslides #13 of 34 1177
- mobileapps #14 of 56 1214
- fullstack #16 of 59 1232
- webapps #18 of 56 1237
- androidnative #22 of 54 1179
- website #25 of 151 1279

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 512K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |

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,...