MiniMax M3 pricing & price history
MiniMax M3 by MiniMax costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.22 input / $0.88 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
Which platform runs MiniMax M3 most reliably
7 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Minimax is the most stable; DeepInfra is the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimax official most stable | Occasional issues (2 d)avg 99.74% | 100% | 100% | ||
| DeepInfra | Often unstable (5 d)avg 99.10% | 97% | 100% | ||
| Parasail | Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.08% | 99.9% | 100% | ||
| StreamLake | Often unstable (6 d)avg 98.93% | 100% | 100% | ||
| GMICloud | Occasional issues (3 d)avg 98.41% | 99.8% | 100% | ||
| CoreWeave | Often unstable (6 d)avg 96.72% | 99.5% | 100% | ||
| Venice | Often unstable (13 d)avg 95.07% | 93% | 95% |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
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Cheaper alternatives to MiniMax M3
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Intel. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu) | $0.0399 | $0.0784 | 1M | 27.8 | compare |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek | $0.098 | $0.29 | 1M | 28.6 | compare |
 MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.1M | 26.7 | compare |
 Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | 36.5 | compare |
 GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1.1M | 27.9 | compare |
 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1M | 13.6 | compare |
MiniMax M3.1 Flash MiniMax | $0.15 | $0.60 | 1M | 29.1 | compare |
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | $0.20 | $1.20 | 1.1M | 23.8 | compare |
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About MiniMax M3
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,...
FAQ
How much does MiniMax M3 cost?
MiniMax M3 by MiniMax costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.22 input / $0.88 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0012.
What is the context window of MiniMax M3?
MiniMax M3 supports up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and up to 512,000 output tokens per request.
Has MiniMax M3’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is MiniMax M3 being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for MiniMax M3 as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to MiniMax M3?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), MiMo-V2.6-Flash ($0.14/$0.28), Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10/$0.50).