ModelRadar/MiniMax M3
◆ Underrated

MiniMax M3

MiniMax🇨🇳 CN
multimodalreasoning

MiniMax is barely known in the West — but its M3 model on OpenRouter ($0.30/$1.20 per MTok) is one of the cheapest 1M-context multimodal providers. Successor to Text-01 (4M context).

At a glance

Context
1M tokens
Input
text, image, code

Specifications

Status
Released
Date
June 2, 2026
Lab
MiniMax
Origin
CN
Type
multimodal, reasoning
Open weights
License
proprietary
Context
1M tokens
Input
text, image, code
Output
text, code

Availability

Direct API access✓ Yes
OpenRouterYes
Open weights