MiniMax

MiniMax-M3

Vérifié par l’équipe de recherche de GetInfoUsDernière révision : October 2026Politique éditoriale
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Intelligence Index

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Technical Specifications

Provider
MiniMax
Category
open-source
Release Date
2026-06
Knowledge Cutoff
February 2026
Architecture
Multimodal Long-Context Sparse MoE Transformer
Parameters
Confidential / 300B MoE
Context Window
524K tokens
Max Output
32K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
Standard rate
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text, vision
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
Visit Official Docs ↗

Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Open-Weights Research & Commercial License
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
minimax-m3
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
186 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 645 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

MiniMax-M3 Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
Free ($0)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Open-weights or free-tier model: $0 API license cost when self-hosted.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

MiniMax-M3 (Active)
$0.00
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to MiniMax-M3:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$13.50/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (75)Reasoning (83)Knowledge (85)Speed (47)Context (85)Cost Value (98)
MiniMax-M32026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
65%
GPQA Diamond
72%
MMLU-Pro
85%
HumanEval
95%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1420pts

Strengths

  • Spacious 524K fenêtre de contexte supporting massif codebases et élevé-résolution visuals
  • 65% SWE-bench Verified codage score establishing true autonome ingénierie logicielle
  • à poids ouverts version avec complete souverain privacy

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • nécessite substantiel multi-accelerator GPU matériel à host dans-house
  • audio et vidéo inputs require separate upstream preprocessing

Editorial Assessment

de MiniMax de référence ouvert modèle de fondation, offrant true de pointe autonomy avec 524K contexte.

Best for: autonome dépôt refactorisation, complexe multimodal document analyse, et privé d'entreprise intelligence

Frequently Asked Questions about MiniMax-M3

How much does the MiniMax-M3 API cost per 1M tokens?+

MiniMax-M3 by MiniMax is priced at $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 0% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the MiniMax-M3 pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in MiniMax-M3's context window?+

MiniMax-M3 features a 524K tokens context window, which equals approximately 393,216 English words or ~1,049 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 32,000 tokens.

Can I run MiniMax-M3 locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, MiniMax-M3 (Confidential / 300B MoE) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does MiniMax train on data sent to the MiniMax-M3 API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Open-Weights Research & Commercial License. Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does MiniMax-M3 perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

MiniMax-M3 achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 89/100, scoring 65% on SWE-bench Verified, 72% on GPQA Diamond, 85% on MMLU-Pro, and 1420 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is MiniMax-M3 best used for?+

MiniMax-M3 is best suited for: autonome dépôt refactorisation, complexe multimodal document analyse, et privé d'entreprise intelligence. Assessment: de MiniMax de référence ouvert modèle de fondation, offrant true de pointe autonomy avec 524K contexte.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: MiniMax M3 Research Release & Hugging Face↗