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MiniMax-M3

  • Released
  • Open weights
  • Minimax Community License
Intelligence Index

Reasoning setting

29.2#35 of 83measured models
Measured · Artificial Analysis v4.3.2
API price from
$0.30 in / $1.20 out / 1M tokOpenRouter · Parasail · FP8
Context window
1M tok

Performance profile

ReasoningRank #8 of 107
92.9%
GPQA Diamond
CodingRank #42 of 94
47.1%
SciCode
Cost efficiencyRank #32 of 67
57.6pts / $
Intelligence ÷ eval cost

Capabilities

Context window

Modalities

Measured setting

Integration

Reasoning trade-offs

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Intelligence Index v4.3.2
MiniMax-M3
Cost per task (USD) · log scale
MiniMax-M3Reasoning
Intelligence Index
29.2
Cost / task
$0.5076
Evaluation time
8.8m

Pricing & access

API route
OpenRouter · Parasail · FP8API
Tier & contextStandard

USD per 1M tokens

Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Cached input
$0.06

Run locally

GGUF
Context
Estimated memory

~271.5 GiB

RAM + VRAM

Estimate assumptions

One text chat at the selected context, with a 16-bit cache and app allowance. Operating system and image processing are extra; optimized caches can use less.

384 GiB RAMwithout GPU offload

Memory budgetOne text chat
Weights
245.9 GiB
Context cache
1 GiB16-bit cache
App allowance
24.6 GiB
Download
264 GB7 files · keep together
Disk space
~296 GB

Benchmarks

Full leaderboardSource (opens in a new tab)

Humanity’s Last Exam

Frontier reasoning

MiniMax-M3 · Reasoning#28 of 126

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5Max61.4%
  2. 2Claude Fable 5.1Max59.1%
  3. 3Gemini 4 ArgonHigh57.1%
  4. 25GLM-5.3-FlashMax39.9%
  5. 26Ling-3.1-flashReasoning39.4%
  6. 27DeepSeek-V4.1-FlashMax39.2%
  7. 28MiniMax-M3Reasoning39.0%
  8. 29GPT-6 LunaMax38.5%
  9. 30Agnes 3.0 FlashReasoning38.5%
  10. 31Qwen3.8-Flash-NextReasoning38.0%

Peers use their best measured result on this benchmark.

Alternatives

Each model at its highest-scoring measured setting · Intelligence Index v4.3.2 and its evaluation cost per task.