MiniMax

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,...

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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 usage over time

OpenRouter share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 holds 5.05% today, up from 0.37% at the start of the visible window.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/minimax-minimax-m3-20260531-free

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/minimax-minimax-m3-20260531-free

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

MiniMax: MiniMax M3's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/minimax-minimax-m3-20260531-free

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-01, MiniMax: MiniMax M3 holds 5.0% of OpenRouter token share, up 4.67pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (OpenRouter).

Cost per session

Median dollars spent on one MiniMax: MiniMax M3 session, by coding agent and session length.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.

Agent1 turn2–9 turns10–49 turns50+ turns
Claude Code$0.0072$0.023$0.157$1.35
Hermes Agent$0.0055$0.015$0.102$0.620
Kilo Code$0.0033$0.019$0.089$0.660

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Data: OpenRouter session-cost dataset as of 2026-08-30 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/minimax-minimax-m3-20260531-free

Where to run it

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 is served by 11 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $0.96 per million tokens from CoreWeave, and the most expensive is $3.00 from ModelRun. The largest context window offered is 1049k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
CoreWeave$0.23$0.96262k99.95%
DeepInfra$0.28$1.10524k98.42%
StreamLake$0.30$1.201000k97.10%
Venice$0.30$1.20524k100.00%
Parasail$0.30$1.201049k99.21%
AtlasCloud$0.30$1.20524k99.98%
Novita$0.30$1.201000k99.17%
Minimax$0.30$1.20524k99.41%
SambaNova$0.60$2.401049k99.63%
GMICloud$0.60$2.401049k97.43%
ModelRun$0.75$3.001049k99.72%