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MiniMax: MiniMax M3

minimax/minimax-m3

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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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Input Price

50% off

$0.30/M

Output Price

50% off

$1.20/M

Context

1M

Weekly Tokens

33.7B

Released

May 31, 2026

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Sample code and API for MiniMax M3

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

1

Get your API key

Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:

2

Make your first request

Use minimax/minimax-m3 with the OpenRouter API:

OpenRouter supports reasoning-enabled models that can show their step-by-step thinking process. Use the reasoning parameter in your request to enable reasoning, and access the reasoning_details array in the response to see the model's internal reasoning before the final answer. When continuing a conversation, preserve the complete reasoning_details when passing messages back to the model so it can continue reasoning from where it left off. Learn more about reasoning tokens.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

3

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:

Endpoint

Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.

POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelminimax/minimax-m3

Creates a streaming or non-streaming response using the OpenAI Responses API format.

Docs
POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responses
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelminimax/minimax-m3

Creates a message using the Anthropic Messages API format. Supports text, images, PDFs, tools, and extended thinking.

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POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/messages
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelminimax/minimax-m3

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultDescription
reasoningmap—Controls reasoning behavior for models that support thinking tokens, including whether reasoning is enabled, the reasoning effort, maximum reasoning tokens, and whether reasoning is excluded from the response.
max_tokensinteger—This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response.
temperaturefloat1This setting influences the variety in the model's responses.
top_pfloat1This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P.
response_formatmap—Forces the model to produce specific output format.
tool_choicestring or object—Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model.
toolsarray—Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape.