# MiniMax M3 — price & specs

Source: https://modelbank.ai/models/minimax-m3 · updated 2026-11-12 · ModelBank

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | MiniMax |
| Input price | $0.3 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $1.2 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.06 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 512,000 tokens |
| Input modalities | text,image,video |
| Reasoning / tool use | yes / yes |
| Intelligence / coding index | 18.9 / 58.6 |
| Released | 2026-05-31 |
| Retirement date | none announced |

## About

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,...

## Price history

- 2026-09-24: $0.3 in / $1.2 out

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