Creator
MiniMax
Released
2026-06-01
Intelligence
44.4
Artificial Analysis Index
Coding
58.6
Artificial Analysis Index
In $/1M
$0.30
input tokens
Out $/1M
$1.20
output tokens
Blended $/1M
$0.53
3:1 blended
Speed
97
tokens / sec
Profile
License, openness, and modality — the governance layer.
License
MIT
commercial OK
Weights
Open
downloadable
Modalities
Image · Text · Video
Parameters
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MiniMax M3 is the first open-weight model to combine three frontier capabilities: top-tier coding and agentic performance, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodality. It is powered by MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), a new sparse attention architecture that partitions the KV cache into blocks to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with more than 9x faster prefill and more than 15x faster decode while matching full attention on most capabilities. Trained with mixed-modality data from step zero across 100T+ tokens, M3 natively supports image and video input and can operate a desktop computer. On SWE-Bench Pro it scores 59.0%, surpassing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro and approaching Opus 4.7, and on BrowseComp it scores 83.5%, surpassing Opus 4.7. M3 supports toggling thinking on or off at request time.
Capability profile
Category strength across 20 domains, via LLM Stats.
Benchmark breakdown
Independent evaluation scores, normalized to 0–100.
Providers
Inference hosts serving this model — their own pricing and measured performance, cheapest input first.
| Provider | In $/1M | Out $/1M | Throughput | Latency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | active |
| Novita | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | active |
| Together | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | active |
| MiniMax | $0.60 | $2.40 | — | — | active |
4 hosts · via LLM Stats