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MiniMax: MiniMax M3

minimax/minimax-m3:free

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MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks.

Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.

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Free

Context

1.0M

Released

May 31, 2026

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MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for MiniMax M3 is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

MiniMax M3 has a 1,048,576 token context window.

MiniMax M3 accepts text, images and video as input and returns text.

MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2-her and 4 more are other text models from MiniMax.

MiniMax M3 was released on May 31, 2026.

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