MiniMax model product
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight LLM with native image and video input, desktop computer operation, and a 1M-token context window.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: MiniMax M3
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Benchmark scores for MiniMax M3.
Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkGDPval-Rubrics | Score74.78% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkIMO 2025 | Score35.00 points | Rank01 | Participants2 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkKernelBench Hard | Score28.80% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveSQLBench | Score40.17% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLOCA-Bench (256k) | Score49.30% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOmniDocBench 1.5 | Score91.60% | Rank01 | Participants18 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSpreadSheetBench-v1 | Score89.35% | Rank01 | Participants3 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSVG-Bench | Score63.70% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE Atlas - Test Writing | Score30.83% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE-fficiency | Score34.80% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkUSAMO 2026 | Score36.00 points | Rank01 | Participants3 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkVIBE-V2 | Score50.12% | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkYC-Bench | Score2,100,000.00 points | Rank01 | Participants1 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBankerToolBench | Score76.12% | Rank02 | Participants2 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkCL-bench | Score20.48% | Rank02 | Participants2 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkDRACO | Score73.23% | Rank02 | Participants2 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkPostTrainBench | Score37.10% | Rank02 | Participants7 | Percentile83.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkClaw-Eval | Score74.50% | Rank03 | Participants14 | Percentile84.62% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkPaperBench | Score52.60% | Rank03 | Participants3 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE Atlas - Codebase QnA | Score37.90% | Rank03 | Participants3 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkVideo-MME | Score85.40% | Rank06 | Participants17 | Percentile68.75% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkAPEX-Agents | Score27.70% | Rank08 | Participants9 | Percentile12.50% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkVideoMMMU | Score84.60% | Rank08 | Participants26 | Percentile72.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkFinance Agent v2 | Score48.27% | Rank09 | Participants26 | Percentile68.00% | EvidenceB | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOfficeQA Pro | Score45.10% | Rank09 | Participants9 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE-Bench Verified | Score80.50% | Rank10 | Participants113 | Percentile91.96% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkFrontierCode 1.1 | Score14.70% | Rank16 | Participants17 | Percentile6.25% | EvidenceB | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMCP Atlas | Score74.20% | Rank16 | Participants34 | Percentile54.55% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBrowseComp | Score83.52% | Rank17 | Participants63 | Percentile74.19% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkNL2Repo | Score42.13% | Rank17 | Participants22 | Percentile23.81% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
Arena | Category | Rank | Rating / score | Votes | Observations | Result date |
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| Arenadocument | Categoryoverall | Rank22 | Rating / score1,434.82 | Votes6,263 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenawebdev | Categoryimage to webdev | Rank22 | Rating / score1,472.48 | Votes2,956 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent bash recovery steps | Categoryoverall | Rank23 | Rating / score0.04 | VotesN/A | Observations72.7K | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryjapanese | Rank26 | Rating / score1,400.88 | Votes425 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categorychinese | Rank26 | Rating / score1,319.78 | Votes610 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categorychinese | Rank26 | Rating / score1,300.35 | Votes610 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorygerman | Rank27 | Rating / score1,407.70 | Votes422 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenadocument style control | Categoryoverall | Rank28 | Rating / score1,433.52 | Votes6,263 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryenglish | Rank31 | Rating / score1,266.73 | Votes5,304 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent tool hallucination | Categoryoverall | Rank32 | Rating / score0.00 | VotesN/A | Observations2.5M | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorykorean | Rank34 | Rating / score1,379.93 | Votes479 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryhumor | Rank34 | Rating / score1,248.07 | Votes452 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry mathematical | Rank35 | Rating / score1,448.49 | Votes2,042 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryocr | Rank36 | Rating / score1,264.96 | Votes9,533 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryexpert | Rank37 | Rating / score1,481.14 | Votes4,134 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryoverall | Rank37 | Rating / score1,255.42 | Votes13,390 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent | Categoryoverall | Rank38 | Rating / score-0.04 | VotesN/A | Observations2.6M | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categorydiagram | Rank38 | Rating / score1,266.46 | Votes3,585 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categoryenglish | Rank38 | Rating / score1,246.28 | Votes5,304 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenawebdev | Categorywebdev-react | Rank38 | Rating / score1,484.01 | Votes8,832 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryhomework | Rank39 | Rating / score1,272.47 | Votes1,576 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categoryhomework | Rank39 | Rating / score1,263.53 | Votes1,576 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categoryhumor | Rank39 | Rating / score1,227.05 | Votes452 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenawebdev | Categoryoverall | Rank39 | Rating / score1,487.30 | Votes11,876 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenawebdev | Categorywebdev | Rank39 | Rating / score1,487.30 | Votes11,876 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent praise complaint | Categoryoverall | Rank40 | Rating / score-0.10 | VotesN/A | Observations9.9K | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categorycoding | Rank40 | Rating / score1,472.95 | Votes13,035 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry medicine and healthcare | Rank40 | Rating / score1,474.72 | Votes2,521 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categoryocr | Rank40 | Rating / score1,252.42 | Votes9,533 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent steerability | Categoryoverall | Rank41 | Rating / score-0.05 | VotesN/A | Observations33.5K | Result date |
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderNvidia | Provider model IDminimaxai/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderKenari | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderMiniMax Token Plan (minimaxi.com) | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderVolcengine Ark Coding Plan | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderMiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io) | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderSCNet Token Plan | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderEmpirioLabs AI | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.225 | Output / 1M$0.90 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderWeights & Biases | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.23 | Output / 1M$0.96 | Context262.1K | Updated |
| ProviderVancine | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.24 | Output / 1M$0.96 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderDeep Infra | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.28 | Output / 1M$1.1 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderLilac | Provider model IDminimaxai/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.28 | Output / 1M$1.1 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOrcaRouter | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderNanoGPT | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context512K | Updated |
| ProviderJalapeno Cloud | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderHugging Face | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderOpenRouter | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOpenCode Go | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderNebius Token Factory | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderMerge Gateway | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderTogether AI | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderOpenCode Zen | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context512K | Updated |
| ProviderRequesty | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderMiniMax (minimaxi.com) | Provider model IDMiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderClinePass | Provider model IDcline-pass/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderVercel AI Gateway | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context512K | Updated |
| ProviderEden AI | Provider model IDminimax/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderDevPass (LLM Gateway) | Provider model IDminimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderKilo Gateway | Provider model IDminimax/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context524.3K | Updated |
| ProviderPioneer | Provider model IDMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderFireworks AI | Provider model IDaccounts/fireworks/models/minimax-m3 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$1.2 | Context512K | Updated |
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for MiniMax M3. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
Provider | Output Speed | Catalog Latency | Max Input | Max Output | Updated |
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| ProviderMiniMax | Output Speed6.61 tok/s | Catalog Latency6.05 s | Max Input1M | Max Output524.3K | Updated |
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Technical details for the model's default version.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionMiniMax M3 | Released | LLMBoard69.20 | Parameters428B | Context1M | Max output524.3K | Open weightsYes | LicenseMIT |
Recommendations prioritize the same model type and family, then the closest LLMBoard score.
Key information about MiniMax M3 and its available data.
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight large language model from MiniMax powered by MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA). It supports native image and video input, desktop computer operation, and toggling thinking on or off at request time.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
Common questions about MiniMax M3.
MiniMax M3's default version was released on Jun 1, 2026.
MiniMax M3's official API price is $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens via MiniMax (minimax.io). The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.225 input and $0.90 output via EmpirioLabs AI.
MiniMax M3 was created by MiniMax.
The default version has a 1M token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under MIT.
44 provider offerings are linked to the default version.
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.