MiniMax M3

class A live

MiniMax's frontier open-weight multimodal model for agentic reasoning, tool use and coding; 1M context, ~428B MoE / ~23B active.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price	$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M (secondary)	secondary	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Context	1M	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights	open · minimax-community	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Multimodal	text+image+video	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier	open self-host	official	source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

44 / 100

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index ↗ measured 2026-07-04

Eligible for Best free Best for API Open-weights Multimodal

MiniMax’s frontier open-weight multimodal model for agentic reasoning, tool use and coding; 1M context, ~428B MoE / ~23B active.