MODEL PROOF
MiniMax M3
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 38.4 points · 55% lower measured price · $0.237 / 1M tokens
Gemma 4 31B is a further stored option with these losses: 1M → 262K context, 512K → 16K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,433.5 ± 4.19 · 48,540 votes
- Context window
- 1.05M
- Maximum output
- 512K
- Input modalities
- text, image, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.300 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.20 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.300/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.20/M |
| Cached input | $0.060/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.240/M from GMICloud.
13 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreWeavecoreweave/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.230 | $0.960 | fp4 | 99.18% |
| GMICloudgmicloud/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.240 | $0.960 | fp8 | 99.78% |
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.280 | $1.10 | fp8 | 99.34% |
| StreamLakestreamlake/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 99.46% |
| Venicevenice/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 89.97% |
| Parasailparasail/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 96.24% |
| AtlasCloudatlas-cloud/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 97.86% |
| Novitanovita/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 99.62% |
| Minimaxminimax/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | fp8 | 99.03% |
| Togethertogether Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $1.20 | undeclared | 99.89% |
| Maramara Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $2.40 | undeclared | 90.61% |
| SambaNovasambanova Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $2.40 | undeclared | 95.78% |
| ModelRunmodelrun/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.750 | $3.00 | fp4 | 99.79% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1433.5default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- htmlslides #11of 23 1183
- python-pptxslides #14of 26 1207
- fullstack #19of 41 1202
- agenticgamedev #19of 24 1158
- mobileapps #20of 40 1196
- webapps #21of 40 1207
- androidnative #23of 35 1166
- website #30of 114 1267
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 512K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-09-23 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
People search MiniMax. This page is MiniMax M3, not M2.7 and not a MiniMax subscription. This catalogue does not publish a parameter count. A missing count is not a guess. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo.
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,...
Questions this page answers
What does MiniMax M3 cost?
$0.300/M in, $1.20/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does MiniMax M3 have an independent quality score?
MiniMax M3 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats MiniMax M3?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for MiniMax M3?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest MiniMax M3 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.240/M from GMICloud.
How many parameters does MiniMax M3 have?
This catalogue does not publish a parameter count for MiniMax M3. A missing count is not a guess.
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