MiniMax M3
The 25th most-used model on the router over the last 7 days, with 0.74% of tokens. Weekly share peaked at 9.7% in the week of Jun 8, 2026, with 56T tokens processed since Jun 1, 2026.
- Launch
- May 31, 2026
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Modality
- text, image and video → text
- Reasoning
- yes
- License
- Open weights
- Input
- $0.30 / 1M
- Output
- $1.20 / 1M
Weekly token share
Share of the router's weekly volume, since the first week with volume
See the numbers
| Week | Share |
|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2026 | 0.744% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 0.850% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 0.751% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 0.716% |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 0.939% |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 1.152% |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 1.613% |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 5.597% |
| Aug 24, 2026 | 3.617% |
| Aug 17, 2026 | 1.822% |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 2.034% |
| Aug 3, 2026 | 2.467% |
| Jul 27, 2026 | 3.447% |
| Jul 20, 2026 | 3.529% |
| Jul 13, 2026 | 6.076% |
| Jul 6, 2026 | 8.094% |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 8.802% |
| Jun 22, 2026 | 8.014% |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 8.084% |
| Jun 8, 2026 | 9.692% |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 6.917% |
Debuted in the week of Jun 1, 2026 and peaked at 9.7% 1 week later. The latest full week came in at 0.74%, 8% of peak.
What this model is used for new
Tasks where the model ranks among the leaders, and its share of each
This model is not among the leaders in any of the 29 tasks classified in the Oct 25, 2026 snapshot. That does not mean it goes unused: the source lists only the largest models in each task.
Snapshot of the rolling 7-day window through Oct 25, 2026. Share: the model's tokens in the task over the task's total tokens. Weight: the task's share of classified volume.
Where to run it
Endpoints in the source's catalog, from cheapest to most expensive on input
| Provider | Input | Output | Context | Quantization | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.224 | $0.88 | 512k | fp8 | yes |
| CoreWeave | $0.23 | $0.96 | 256k | fp4 | yes |
| GMICloud | $0.24 | $0.96 | 1M | fp8 | no |
| DeepInfra | $0.28 | $1.10 | 512k | fp8 | yes |
| StreamLake | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1M | fp8 | no |
| Venice | $0.30 | $1.20 | 512k | fp8 | yes |
| Together | $0.30 | $1.20 | 512k | not reported | yes |
| Parasail | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1M | fp8 | yes |
| AtlasCloud | $0.30 | $1.20 | 512k | fp8 | no |
| Novita | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1M | fp8 | yes |
| Minimax | $0.30 | $1.20 | 512k | fp8 | no |
| ModelRun | $0.30 | $1.30 | 1M | fp8 | yes |
| Mara | $0.60 | $2.40 | 1M | not reported | yes |
13 endpoints across 12 providers, with input from $0.224 to $0.60 per 1M tokens. 9 offer zero data retention.
Prices in US dollars per million tokens, from the latest archived endpoint catalog.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis indexes and benchmarks run by the source, with cost per task
GPQA Diamond 90.5%
$0.034 per task, 2571 tasks. 28th of 169 evaluated. Median of evaluated models: 83.4%, $0.025 per task.
τ-bench verified, airline 74.9%
$0.025 per task, 600 tasks. 39th of 150 evaluated. Median of evaluated models: 71.2%, $0.064 per task.
Artificial Analysis indexes, exposed by the catalog; benchmarks run by the source and archived on Oct 26, 2026. The gray mark is the median of evaluated models.
Against the week's largest models
The five largest proprietary and five largest open-weights models over the last 7 days
| Model | Lab | 7-day share | Blended price | Context | Intelligence | Weeks in top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietary | ||||||
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | OpenAI | 4.4% | $0.20 | 1M | 38.1 | 5 |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | Anthropic | 4.4% | $8.00 | 1M | 57.6 | 3 |
| jev-1.13Typesafe | Typesafe | 1.6% | — | — | — | 0 |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | OpenAI | 1.5% | $4.00 | 1M | 51.8 | 0 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorMeta | Meta | 1.5% | $0.125 | 1M | — | 0 |
| Open weights | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek | DeepSeek | 17.9% | $0.263 | 1M | 39.5 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | DeepSeek | 9.6% | $0.265 | 1M | 24.7 | 7 |
| MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax | MiniMax | 7.7% | $0.263 | 1M | 42.7 | 1 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai (GLM) | Z.ai (GLM) | 7.0% | $0.237 | 1M | 41.8 | 9 |
| Hy4 previewTencent | Tencent | 4.8% | $1.25 | 1M | — | 8 |
| MiniMax M3this pageMiniMax | MiniMax | 0.74% | $0.525 | 1M | 29.2 | 11 |
Share over the last 7 days (Oct 19, 2026 to Oct 25, 2026). Blended price in US dollars per million tokens, weighted 75% input and 25% output. A dash means the number is not published, not zero.