MiniMax M3 Pricing
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Pricing position within MiniMax
MiniMax M3 is the cheapest active model in MiniMax's lineup at $0.30/1M input — no sibling undercuts it. The most expensive sibling costs $0.30/1M (0% more). At scale, routing high-volume calls here vs the flagship saves significantly.
When MiniMax M3 is worth the cost
MiniMax M3 is used for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. You send a prompt or reference image, receive a video clip back. Common pipelines: marketing asset generation, storyboarding, social content, and visual prototyping. It doesn't handle text chat — route text workloads to a language model.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes MiniMax M3 different from sibling models: compared to MiniMax M2.7 ($0.00/1M cheaper, 256K vs 1M context (smaller)). Choose MiniMax M3 when step-by-step reasoning matters more than speed.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: marketing video generation from product descriptions, social media content creation, storyboarding for video production, and visual prototyping for design teams. MiniMax M3 outputs video clips directly — no separate rendering pipeline needed.