MiniMax MiniMax-M3 — status, pricing and lifecycle

What kind of model is this?

Tags describe what MiniMax-M3 takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow MiniMax's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.

Modality

• Text
• Vision

Use case

• Chat
• Coding
• Reasoning
• Agents & tool use
• Long context

Tier

• Mid-tier

Access

• Hosted API
• Open weights

Specifications

Input price

$0.30 / M tokens

Output price

$1.20 / M tokens

Price band

Standard

Context window

1M tokens

Max output

unknown

Input

Text, image

Output

Text

Knowledge cutoff

unknown

Tool use

unknown

Structured output

unknown

Weights licence

MiniMax Model License (minimax-community)

Model maker

MiniMax

“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.

Lifecycle

MiniMax has not announced a deprecation or shutdown date for this model. That is a statement about what has been published, not a guarantee — providers typically announce a shutdown months ahead, and this page updates when they do.

1. Released unknown
2. Deprecated not announced
3. Retired not announced

What is it good for?

No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from MiniMax's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.

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Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.

Sources

• platform.minimax.io ↗ https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo
• openrouter.ai ↗ https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m3
• platform.minimax.io ↗ https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro
• platform.minimax.io ↗ https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/text-generation

Verified against the source on 10 September 2026. Dataset snapshot 10 September 2026. Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.