MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 is MiniMax's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 512K output tokens, available from 5 providers, starting at $0.3 / 1M input and $1.20 / 1M output. A multimodal foundation model supporting text, image, and video inputs with a 1M-token context window, designed for long-horizon agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning.
Capabilities
Input4/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Cache Read $ / 1M | |
| $0.3 | $1.20 | $0.06 | |
| $0.3 | $1.20 | N/A | |
| $0.3 | $1.20 | $0.06 | |
| $0.3 | $1.20 | $0.06 | |
| $0.3 | $1.20 | $0.06 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host MiniMax M3, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 1025 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_ND96isr_MI300X_v5 |  Azure | 8× AMD Instinct MI300X | 1536 GB | $48.00/hr | westus3 | |
| p5en.48xlarge |  AWS | 8× H200 | 1128 GB | $63.30/hr | us-east-1 | |
| Standard_ND96isr_H200_v5 | Azure | 8× NVIDIA H200 GPU (141GB) | 1128 GB | $84.80/hr | westus2 | |