MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Provider: minimax · minimax/minimax-m3
How MiniMax: MiniMax M3 pricing compares
At $1.2 / 1M output tokens, MiniMax: MiniMax M3 is the 4th-cheapest of 9 minimax models we track. It's cheaper than 63% of the 392 paid models on computetrail (147th-cheapest overall). Output costs 4.0× its input price ($0.3 / 1M in). For a typical 3:1 input-to-output workload that works out to about $0.52 / 1M blended. Reading cached input costs 80% less than fresh input, so prompt caching cuts repeat-context cost sharply. Its 1,048,576 tokens context window ranks 50th-largest of 392 models with a published limit.
Output price history
Across 60 daily snapshots since 2026-06-29, the output price has held steady at $1.2 / 1M — no change so far.
Similar-priced models
| Model | Provider | Output $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) | minimax | $1.2 | 524,288 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | minimax | $1.2 | 204,800 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | minimax | $1.2 | 65,536 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | minimax | $1.2 | 204,800 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) | $1.25 | 1,048,576 | |
| Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | anthropic | $1.25 | 200,000 |
Prices are recorded daily from public provider data via OpenRouter and normalized to USD per 1M tokens. See methodology.