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MiniMax M3

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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 agen

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MiniMax M3

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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,...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `minimax/minimax-m3`.

  • openrouter · minimax/minimax-m3 Docs

OpenRouter id: minimax/minimax-m3

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 29.2 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 58.6 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 29.5 index
  • Design Arena agenticgamedev (other): 1158 elo · #19
  • Design Arena androidnative (other): 1172 elo · #23
  • Design Arena fullstack (other): 1197 elo · #19
  • Design Arena htmlslides (other): 1180 elo · #12

Notes

MiniMax M3 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much MiniMax M3 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
1.4T ▼2%
Requests, last 7 days
24.7M
Tool calls, last 7 days
9.4M
Intelligence score
29.2
People's vote
1433
Average cost per request
56.8¢
Price per million tokens
$0.3 in · $1.2 out
0125B250B19 Sept: 183B tokens, 3.3M requests20 Sept: 180B tokens, 3.2M requests21 Sept: 219B tokens, 5.6M requests22 Sept: 203B tokens, 4.1M requests23 Sept: 225B tokens, 4.5M requests24 Sept: 210B tokens, 5.3M requests25 Sept: 175B tokens, 3.5M requests26 Sept: 161B tokens, 3.1M requests27 Sept: 175B tokens, 3.3M requests28 Sept: 189B tokens, 3.8M requests29 Sept: 195B tokens, 3.7M requests30 Sept: 189B tokens, 3.5M requests1 Oct: 163B tokens, 3.3M requests2 Oct: 158B tokens, 3.2M requests3 Oct: 154B tokens, 3.1M requests4 Oct: 139B tokens, 2.6M requests5 Oct: 162B tokens, 2.9M requests6 Oct: 176B tokens, 3.3M requests7 Oct: 194B tokens, 3.5M requests8 Oct: 201B tokens, 3.7M requests9 Oct: 209B tokens, 3.9M requests10 Oct: 179B tokens, 3.3M requests11 Oct: 170B tokens, 2.9M requests12 Oct: 203B tokens, 3.8M requests13 Oct: 214B tokens, 4M requests14 Oct: 206B tokens, 3.8M requests15 Oct: 208B tokens, 3.7M requests16 Oct: 210B tokens, 3.6M requests17 Oct: 179B tokens, 3M requests18 Oct: 174B tokens, 3M requests19 Oct: 206B tokens, 3.7M requests20 Oct: 194B tokens, 4.4M requests21 Oct: 181B tokens, 3.3M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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Price date: 2026-10-18. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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Intelligence Index: 29.2 (2026-10-18) ↗Coding Index: 58.6 (2026-10-18) ↗Agentic Index: 29.5 (2026-10-18) ↗
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