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MiniMax M3
minimax-m3
54Index
MiniMax Community · restrictedGenerally available1M contextTextImageAudioVideo
Pick this when
Cheap multimodal with a million-token window when the license fits.
Skip when
You need a permissive license or a proven coding-agent lead.
Quietly strong. Easy to miss because it does not buy launch-week headlines.
Price
- Input / 1M
- $0.30
- Output / 1M
- $1.20
- Measured task
- $0.22
Weights available. Community license restricts commercial use.
Shape
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 64K
- Released
- 2026-07
- Tools
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
Scores
Intelligence index54
GPQA Diamond85
Terminal-Bench 2.163
Agentic index35
- Arena
- —
- Speed
- 120/s
- GPQA
- 84.8%
- Term.
- 63.2%
- AA Index. The single number most people mean by “how smart.” It is a blend, so a specialist can lose here and still win the job you care about.
- GPQA. A clean test of hard reasoning. PhD experts sit around 65%. It says little about writing, tools, or taste.
- Term.. Closest public proxy for coding agents that live in a terminal. A high index score with a weak terminal score is a warning.
- Arena. Captures taste and usefulness that unit tests miss. Sample size varies by model, so treat gaps under ~100 Elo as noise.
MiniMax · Shanghai. M3 is a cheap multimodal all-rounder with a million-token window. Weights exist. The community license restricts commercial use.