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MiniMax-M3 is MiniMax’s proprietary AI model, released Jun 1, 2026. It costs $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output tokens, and handles a 1M-token context window. Its strongest use case is coding, where it ranks in the 72nd percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax.

Context
1M
Input
$0.30 / 1M
Output
$1.20 / 1M
Released
Jun 1, 2026
Modalities
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Strongest atCoding top 28%Reasoning & Knowledge top 38%

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where MiniMax-M3 lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

64.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
64th percentile of tracked models
72.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
72nd percentile of tracked models
58.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
58th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

3 evals
GPQA Diamond92.9%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam37.1%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

SimpleBench45.8%

Common-sense trick questions

Coding

2 evals
SciCode45.4%

Scientific research coding

WebDev Arena1528

Human-rated web development

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
τ²-bench88.9%

Tool-agent-user reliability

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Frequently asked questions

What is MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax.

Who created MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is an AI model developed by MiniMax, part of the MiniMax family, released Jun 1, 2026.

How much does MiniMax-M3 cost?

MiniMax-M3's list price from MiniMax is $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens.

What is MiniMax-M3's context window?

MiniMax-M3 supports a context window of up to 1M tokens.

How does MiniMax-M3 perform on benchmarks?

On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, MiniMax-M3 scores 92.9% on GPQA Diamond, 1528 on WebDev Arena, 37.1% on Humanity's Last Exam.

Is MiniMax-M3 open source?

MiniMax-M3 is a proprietary model (API access), available through its provider's API rather than as a downloadable open-weight model.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Jul 30, 2026.