Compare MiniMax M3 from Minimax and MiniMax M3 (free) from Minimax on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
MiniMax M3MiniMax M3 (free)The MiniMax M3 is a flagship programming model built for real-world productivity. As a production-grade model natively designed for Agent scenarios, it has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in coding, agentic tool use, search, and office work.
MiniMax-M3 is a versatile multimodal foundation model developed by MiniMax that supports text, image, and video inputs to generate text outputs. With a massive context window of 1,048,576 tokens, it is capable of processing and understanding vast amounts of information. This model is highly optimized for complex tasks, making it exceptionally well-suited for coding and long-horizon agentic workflows.
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MiniMax M3: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
MiniMax M3 accepts 204,800 and MiniMax M3 (free) accepts 1,048,576 input tokens.
MiniMax M3 (free) at 58.4 tok/s and MiniMax M3 at 49.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
MiniMax M3 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; MiniMax M3 (free) accepts text and image input and supports reasoning and long context.
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