MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Thinking
minimax-m3:thinking
MiniMax M3 Thinking is the adaptive-thinking version of MiniMax's open-weights frontier model for coding, agent workflows, tool use, long-context tasks, and native multimodal understanding. MiniMax reports 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro and 66.0% on Terminal Bench 2.1, with Sparse Attention designed to scale context to 1M.
Modalities
Text + Image → Text
Input / output price
$0.353 / $1.39 per 1M
Context
512K · max output 80K
Capabilities
Pricing
Billed per token actually used and deducted from your credits.
| Item | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.353 |
| Output | $1.39 |
| Cached input | $0.0707 |
Calculator
Drag the sliders to estimate what this model will cost.
- Per request
- $0.00217
- Per day
- $1.09
- Per month (30 days)
- $32.56
MiniMax M3 Thinking: input $0.3535/M · output $1.3879/M · cached input $0.0707/M
curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "minimax-m3:thinking", "max_tokens": 800,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "…"}]}'Code samples
OpenAI-compatible. Set the base URL to https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1 and the model to minimax-m3:thinking.
curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "minimax-m3:thinking",
"stream": true,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'Use it in a client: Cursor · Cline · SillyTavern · Codex
Parameters
Common OpenAI parameters can be passed as-is.
temperaturetop_pmax_tokensstreamstoppresence_penaltyfrequency_penaltyseedFAQ
- How is MiniMax M3 Thinking billed?
- Input is $0.353 and output is $1.39 per million tokens; cached input is $0.0707. The charge for every request is listed in Usage Logs in the console.
- How long is the context window?
- 512K tokens. In a long conversation every turn is billed for the full input, so keep the history under control.
- Does it support streaming?
- Yes. Add
"stream": trueto the request to receive server-sent events in the OpenAI format.