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MiniMax-M3

MiniMaxMiniMax

Description

MiniMax M3 is the first open-weight model to combine three frontier capabilities: top-tier coding and agentic performance, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodality. It is powered by MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), a new sparse attention architecture that partitions the KV cache into blocks to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with more than 9x faster prefill and more than 15x faster decode while matching full attention on most capabilities. Trained with mixed-modality data from step zero across 100T+ tokens, M3 natively supports image and video input and can operate a desktop computer. On SWE-Bench Pro it scores 59.0%, surpassing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro and approaching Opus 4.7, and on BrowseComp it scores 83.5%, surpassing Opus 4.7. M3 supports toggling thinking on or off at request time.

Release Date
2026-06-01
Parameters
Context Length
1.0M
Modalities
image, text, video

Capability Radar

43
general
57
coding
93
reasoning
65
scienceest.
80
agents
80
multimodal

Science uses a reasoning proxy when dedicated science benchmarks are unavailable.

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Code Ranking53
78.0
AA
General Ranking23
84.0
AA
Science37
81.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

Agents

YC-Bench2100000.00 / 10000000SR
GDPval-AA1431.00 / 3000SR
SpreadSheetBench-v189.3%SR
BrowseComp83.5%SR
BankerToolBench76.1%SR
GDPval-Rubrics74.8%SR
Claw-Eval74.5%SR
MCP Atlas74.2%SR
DRACO73.2%SR
OSWorld-Verified70.1%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.166.0%SR
SVG-Bench63.7%SR
SWE-Bench Pro59.0%SR
PaperBench52.6%SR
VIBE-V250.1%SR
LOCA-Bench (256k)49.3%SR
Finance Agent v248.3%SR
OfficeQA Pro45.1%SR
NL2Repo42.1%SR
LiveSQLBench40.2%SR
SWE Atlas - Codebase QnA37.9%SR
PostTrainBench37.1%SR
SWE-fficiency34.8%SR
SWE Atlas - Test Writing30.8%SR
KernelBench Hard28.8%SR
APEX-Agents27.7%SR
CL-bench20.5%SR

Code

SWE-Bench Verified80.5%SR

General

MMMU-Pro78.1%SR
LiveBench70.0%SR

Healthcare

VideoMMMU84.6%SR

Math

USAMO 202636.00 / 42SR
IMO 202535.00 / 42SR

Multimodal

OmniDocBench 1.591.6%SR
Video-MME85.4%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

Coding Index
58.6
Intelligence Index
44.4
Gpqa
0.9
Tau2
0.9
Ifbench
0.8
Lcr
0.7
Terminalbench V2 1
0.7
Scicode
0.5
Terminalbench Hard
0.4
Hle
0.4
Tau Banking
0.1

LLM Stats Category Scores

Legal
100
Finance
100
General
100
Agents
100
Reasoning
92
Math
18
Productivity
90
Structured Output
90
Multimodal
80
Search
80
Frontend Development
80
Healthcare
80
Tool Calling
80
Vision
80
Code
60
Coding
60
Systems
40

Pricing

Input Price$0.3 / 1M tokens
Output Price$1.2 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0.525 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.06 / 1M tokens

Speed

Tokens/sec100.5
Time to First Token1.44s
Time to Answer21.33s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

24 providers

Cheapest: EmpirioLabs AIMost Expensive: Merge Gateway
ProviderInputOutput
1EmpirioLabs AICheapest
$0.225
$0.9
2Lilac
$0.28
$1.1
3MiniMaxPRIMARY
$0.3
$1.2
4NanoGPT
$0.3
$1.2
5Abacus
$0.3
$1.2
6OpenRouter
$0.3
$1.2
7Fireworks AI
$0.3
$1.2
8OpenCode Go
$0.3
$1.2
9Hugging Face
$0.3
$1.2
10Deep Infra
$0.3
$1.2
11Kilo Gateway
$0.3
$1.2
12Venice AI
$0.3
$1.2
13Vercel AI Gateway
$0.3
$1.2
14MiniMax (minimax.io)
$0.3
$1.2
15LLM Gateway
$0.3
$1.2
16Together AI
$0.3
$1.2
17MiniMax (minimaxi.com)
$0.3
$1.2
18Pioneer
$0.3
$1.2
19Wafer
$0.33
$1.32
20CrossModel
$0.33
$1.32
21Cortecs
$0.355
$1.775
22ZenMux
$0.6
$2.4
23Synthetic
$0.6
$1.2
24Merge Gateway
$0.6
$2.4

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