MiniMax M3 (batch)
by MiniMax · minimax/minimax-m3:batch · #162 cheapest of 422 paid models
Prices updated Sep 20, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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,...
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Pricing
Input
$0.30
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.20
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.525
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.06
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for MiniMax M3 (batch) with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.525 | $0.0318 | — |
| 50% | $0.435 | $0.0198 | −38% |
| 90% | $0.363 | $0.0102 | −68% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00051 | $0.51 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0036 | $3.60 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0114 | $11.40 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.051 | $51.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
29.2
AA composite quality
Coding Index
58.6
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
30.8
Output speed
107 tok/s
median
Time to first token
1.01s
median
Time to first answer
19.78s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 39.0% |
| SciCode | 47.1% |
| IFBench | 82.9% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 83.0% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 42.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 65.2% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 88.9% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 15.3% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,272 |
| Web apps | 1,215 |
| Full-stack | 1,205 |
| Mobile apps | 1,195 |
| Android native | 1,167 |
| UI components | 1,261 |
| Data viz | 1,250 |
| SVG | 1,191 |
| 3D | 1,238 |
| Game dev | 1,239 |
| Agentic game dev | 1,159 |
| HTML slides | 1,183 |
| Python→PPTX slides | 1,207 |
| Code categories | 1,265 |
| ASCII art | 1,184 |
Specs
Context window
524K
tokens
Max output
472K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, video
Tokenizer
Other