MiniMax: MiniMax M3
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,...
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Verdict
Best for
- Budget-conscious long-context document analysis
- Video content summarization and extraction
- High-volume multimodal batch processing
- Prototyping with large context requirements
Strengths
The 524K context window handles entire codebases or book-length documents in one pass. At $0.30 per million input tokens, it undercuts most competitors by 50-70% on ingestion costs. Native video understanding eliminates preprocessing steps for multimedia workflows. The pricing structure favors read-heavy use cases where you're analyzing far more than you're generating.
Trade-offs
No public benchmark data makes quality assessment speculative — you can't compare reasoning ability or instruction-following against established models. The $1.20 output pricing is 4x the input rate, so generation-heavy tasks lose the cost advantage quickly. Multimodal capabilities are unproven in production contexts. Documentation and community resources lag far behind OpenAI or Anthropic, increasing integration friction.
Specifications
- Provider
- minimax
- Category
- llm
- Context length
- 524,288 tokens
- Max output
- 512,000 tokens
- Modalities
- text, image, video
- License
- proprietary
- Released
- 2026-05-31
Pricing
- Input
- $0.30/Mtok
- Output
- $1.20/Mtok
- Model ID
minimax/minimax-m3
Per-token prices show what the model costs upstream. On Switchy your team draws from one shared org credit pool — one plan, one balance for everyone.
Team cost calculator
5 seats · 80 msgs/day
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Providers
| Provider | Context | Input | Output | P50 latency | Throughput | 30d uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| minimax | 524k | $0.30/Mtok | $1.20/Mtok | — | — | — |
Performance
Benchmarks
Works well with
Top MCPs
Compatibility data comes from first-party telemetry; once we have enough co-usage signal, top MCPs for this model will appear here.
How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
Analyze Full Codebase
Review this complete codebase for architectural patterns, code quality issues, and potential security vulnerabilities. Provide a structured summary with specific file references and severity ratings.Open in a Space →
Summarize Long Video
Watch this video and provide a detailed summary including: main topics covered, key timestamps for important moments, and actionable insights. Format as a bulleted outline.Open in a Space →
Extract Contract Terms
Extract all financial terms, obligations, deadlines, and termination clauses from this contract. Present findings in a comparison table with page references.Open in a Space →
Compare Multiple Documents
Compare these three policy documents and identify: areas of alignment, contradictions, and gaps in coverage. Organize findings by policy domain.Open in a Space →
Analyze Image Series
Examine this sequence of images and describe: visual changes over time, recurring elements, and any anomalies or patterns. Provide frame-by-frame analysis where relevant.Open in a Space →