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MiniMax M3: price, performance and context
Open MiniMax M3 by MiniMax costs $0.30 per 1M input and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,100 pages of text) and scores 29.2 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 50 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 9 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.30
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.20
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max. output
- 512K tokens
- Performance index
- 29.2 points · rank 50 of 212
- Coding index
- 58.6 points · rank 39 of 119
- Agentic index
- 29.5 points · rank 28 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $0.60 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- May 31, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 14,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 18,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.002 | 6,300 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.003 | 3,500 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.032 | 310 |
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