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MiniMax M3

Natively multimodal open-weight model built for very long agent trajectories.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#42
Tier
A
Score
80.0
Main category
Overall

Strengths

  • Supports up to a one-million-token context for long agent runs
  • Natively multimodal rather than text-only
  • Direct pricing is low enough for high-volume agent pipelines

Considerations

  • Guaranteed context floor varies by serving route
  • Trails the top open-weight models on independent intelligence indexes
  • Chinese-hosted routes need a data residency review for some buyers

Price

Open weights (MiniMax Community License); API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens via MiniMax (prompts up to 512K; $0.60 / $2.40 above)

Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.

Score breakdown

Performance
82.0
55% of score
Reputation
74.0
35% of score
Recency
90.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

Verification status

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