MiniMax M3 (free)
by Minimax
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
Models
MiniMax M3 (free)
Added 3 Sept 2026
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:free`.
- openrouter ·
minimax/minimax-m3:freeDocs
OpenRouter id: minimax/minimax-m3:free
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 35.7 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 58.6 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 31 index
- Design Arena agenticgamedev (other) : 1158 elo · #18
- Design Arena androidnative (other) : 1171 elo · #23
- Design Arena fullstack (other) : 1203 elo · #15
- Design Arena htmlslides (other) : 1186 elo · #10
Notes
MiniMax M3 (free) is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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