MiniMax · AI model API pricing
How much does MiniMax M3 cost?
MiniMax's flagship at budget-tier prices — the whole M-series holds the $0.30/$1.20 line.
Rate card
| Input tokens | $0.30 / 1M |
| Cached input | $0.06 / 1M |
| Output tokens | $1.2 / 1M |
| Context window | — |
What that means per month
| Workload | Tokens / month | Cost / month |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 1M in · 0.3M out | $0.66/mo |
| Small app | 10M in · 3M out | $6.60/mo |
| Production app | 50M in · 15M out | $33/mo |
| High volume | 200M in · 60M out | $132/mo |
| Heavy platform | 1B in · 300M out | $660/mo |
Standard on-demand rates from MiniMax's official API docs, last checked 2026-07-17. Rates shown are for prompts ≤512k tokens; above that, input and output double ($0.60/$2.40). Cache reads bill at $0.06 per 1M. Monthly figures exclude caching and batch discounts. Confirm live pricing before committing.
Cheaper alternatives
At a reference workload of 10M input / 3M output tokens a month, these cost less than MiniMax M3 ($6.60/mo):
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GPT-5.4 Nano $5.75/mo -
Mistral Small 4 $3.30/mo -
DeepSeek V4 Flash $2.24/mo