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MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Minimaxtext9.0 / 10 Overall Rating
MiniMax M3 is a multimodal foundation model supporting text, image, and video inputs with text output. It features a 1M-token context window alongside an exceptionally high 512K output token limit. Priced at $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens, it provides high-throughput processing for long-horizon agentic workflows and code analysis at a fraction of baseline API costs.
Context Window
1049K
Knowledge Cutoff
2025
Max Output
16K
License
Proprietary
Where it Excels (Pros)
- 1M context, massive 512K output
- 8x cheaper than GPT-4o
- Native text, image, video input
Limitations (Cons)
- Reasoning lags Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Variable latency on ultra-large outputs
Benchmark Breakdown
Reasoning (MMLU)82%
Coding (HumanEval)78%
Mathematics (MATH)76%
Long-Context Retrieval95%
Pricing Matrix
Input cost / 1M tokens$0.30
Output cost / 1M tokens$1.20
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