API Need35% off
Uptime
Total Context
1.0486M
Max Output
512K
Input
$0.195/ 1M
Output
$0.78/ 1M
Cache Read
$0.039/ 1M
Cache Write
Route priced
MMiniMax: MiniMax M3 API
minimax-m3
MiniMax M3 API combines text, image, and video input with a 1.05M advertised context and unusually large completion capacity. It targets autonomous workflows that may generate extensive plans or artifacts. [1]
The current row ranks #19 with a 40.94 median and 49.18 best score. Its 985-second measured completion time and large token count suggest asynchronous use is safer than assuming chat latency. [1][2]
MODALITIES
Price$0.195 / $0.78 / 1MCONTEXT1.0486M
Playground
Test MiniMax M3 API with representative production prompts before using minimax-m3 in a live workflow.
Providers
OpenRouter lists MiniMax M3 API with text, image, and video input, text output, and a 1.048576M context window. APINEED routing and prepaid rates are identified separately. [1]
Discount
A 35% APINEED discount reduces official prices of $0.30 input, $1.20 output, and $0.06 cache read to $0.195, $0.78, and $0.039. The table compares official MiniMax M3 API pricing with the APINEED prepaid rate.
Official
Provider baselineInput $0.3/ 1MOutput $1.2/ 1M
BaselineAPINEED35% off
Prepaid creditsInput $0.195/ 1MOutput $0.78/ 1M
Availability
APINEED continuously monitors MiniMax M3 API access and keeps requests on healthy capacity.
System statusLast 90 days
MiniMax M3 API Benchmarks
MiniMax M3 ranks #19, between Gemini 3.6 Flash high and DeepSeek V4 Flash max. Its measured completion time is much longer than both neighbors. The complete LLM2014 logic 2026-07 table remains below, with MiniMax M3 API highlighted when a current row exists. [2]
| 1st | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | 83.80 | 77.46 | 7.57% | 494s | 30,811 | $25.51 | $29.57 |
| 2nd | Kimi-K3 (max) | 82.91 | 74.80 | 9.78% | 1095s | 39,912 | $16.76 | $15.00 |
| 3rd | Claude Opus 4.8 (xhigh) | 82.62 | 66.70 | 19.27% | 791s | 41,833 | $28.86 | $24.64 |
| 4th | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) | 81.94 | 72.99 | 10.92% | 369s | 17,433 | $14.43 | $29.57 |
| 5th | Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) | 78.38 | 71.88 | 8.29% | 426s | 26,392 | $18.21 | $24.64 |
| 6th | Qwen3.7-Max (xhigh) | 74.56 | 66.95 | 10.21% | 374s | 54,207 | $7.81 | $5.14 |
| 7th | GLM-5.2 (max) | 73.68 | 58.27 | 20.91% | 890s | 45,683 | $5.12 | $4.00 |
| 8th | Gemini 3.1 Pro (high) | 73.36 | 58.46 | 20.31% | 214s | 25,905 | $8.58 | $11.83 |
| 9th | GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) | 69.49 | 51.97 | 25.21% | 242s | 38,083 | $6.31 | $5.91 |
| 10th | DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) | 68.00 | 49.97 | 26.51% | 1468s | 60,558 | $1.45 | $0.86 |
| 11th | Grok 4.5 (high) | 67.59 | 56.72 | 16.08% | 451s | 43,372 | $7.18 | $5.91 |
| 12th | Muse Spark 1.1 | 66.18 | 57.23 | 13.52% | 542s | 42,416 | $4.98 | $4.19 |
| 13th | Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) | 65.92 | 60.39 | 8.39% | 188s | 36,372 | $9.03 | $8.87 |
| 14th | Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro (high) | 58.69 | 49.35 | 15.91% | 2003s | 85,059 | $10.21 | $4.29 |
| 15th | Qwen3.7-Plus (high) | 58.50 | 44.09 | 24.63% | 1237s | 57,152 | $1.83 | $1.14 |
| 16th | Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) | 56.87 | 41.74 | 26.6% | 206s | 26,329 | $5.45 | $7.39 |
| 17th | Tencent Hy3 (high) | 54.42 | 44.60 | 18.04% | 1035s | 52,037 | $0.83 | $0.57 |
| 18th | Claude Sonnet 5 (xhigh) | 51.37 | 43.14 | 16.02% | 529s | 44,118 | $12.18 | $9.86 |
| 19th | DeepSeek V4 Flash (max) | 50.62 | 36.24 | 28.41% | 611s | 49,593 | $0.40 | $0.29 |
| 20th | MiniMax-M3 | 49.18 | 40.94 | 16.75% | 985s | 56,467 | $1.90 | $1.20 |
| 21st | Claude Opus 5 | 42.08 | 31.73 | 24.6% | 154s | 10,180 | $7.02 | $24.64 |
| 22nd | Claude Opus 4.6 | 36.88 | 25.79 | 30.07% | 65s | 4,387 | $3.03 | $24.64 |
| 23rd | Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite 0428 (high) | 35.32 | 26.77 | 24.21% | 656s | 26,726 | $0.38 | $0.51 |
| 24th | Gemini 3.5 Flash (minimal) | 33.24 | 22.22 | 33.15% | 44s | 6,189 | $1.54 | $8.87 |
| 25th | Ling-3.0-flash | 32.53 | 20.62 | 36.61% | 688s | 86,204 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 26th | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (high) | 30.23 | 22.82 | 24.51% | 188s | 18,297 | $1.26 | $2.46 |
| 27th | GPT-5.5 Instant | 28.87 | 17.66 | 38.83% | 25s | 1,673 | $1.39 | $29.57 |
| 28th | Gemma 4 31B | 27.91 | 22.04 | 21.03% | 770s | 15,050 | $0.17 | $0.39 |
| 29th | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | 26.91 | 13.00 | 51.69% | 478s | 29,443 | $0.71 | $0.86 |
| 30th | Qwen3.7-Plus | 26.19 | 16.23 | 38.03% | 314s | 8,692 | $0.28 | $1.14 |
| 31st | Step-3.7-Flash | 26.18 | 13.74 | 47.52% | 258s | 44,912 | $1.46 | $1.16 |
| 32nd | Qwen3.5-27B | 24.96 | 17.98 | 27.96% | 451s | 26,391 | $0.51 | $0.69 |
| 33rd | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (high) | 23.78 | 14.30 | 39.87% | 82s | 28,351 | $1.17 | $1.48 |
| 34th | Claude Sonnet 5 | 23.64 | 10.86 | 54.06% | 109s | 5,962 | $1.65 | $9.86 |
| 35th | Qwen3.7-Max | 22.45 | 18.53 | 17.46% | 196s | 6,710 | $0.97 | $5.14 |
| 36th | ERNIE 5.1 | 20.49 | 15.49 | 24.4% | 457s | 24,093 | $1.73 | $2.57 |
| 37th | openPangu-2.0-Flash | 19.83 | 10.76 | 45.74% | 571s | 28,199 | $0.18 | $0.23 |
| 38th | LongCat-2.0 | 19.40 | 9.74 | 49.79% | 395s | 14,886 | $0.48 | $1.14 |
| 39th | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 19.39 | 13.37 | 31.05% | 63s | 5,286 | $0.04 | $0.29 |
| 40th | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 18.44 | 13.87 | 24.78% | 194s | 27,854 | $5.77 | $7.39 |
| 41st | Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro | 17.49 | 9.74 | 44.31% | 305s | 6,009 | $0.72 | $4.29 |
| 42nd | GLM-5.2 | 14.80 | 10.43 | 29.53% | 23s | 953 | $0.11 | $4.00 |
| 43rd | Ling-2.6-1T | 13.05 | 8.39 | 35.71% | 229s | 4,770 | $0.31 | $2.29 |
| 44th | iFLYTEK Spark X2 | 12.39 | 6.21 | 49.88% | 458s | 11,285 | $0.09 | $0.29 |
| 45th | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 11.79 | 10.28 | 12.81% | 9s | 773 | $0.03 | $1.48 |
| 46th | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 10.83 | 7.13 | 34.16% | 17s | 2,546 | $0.53 | $7.39 |
| 47th | Ling-2.6-flash | 10.07 | 4.85 | 51.84% | 25s | 4,997 | $0.04 | $0.30 |
Quick Start
Connect MiniMax M3 API without changing the OpenAI-style request shape. Use output limits, asynchronous jobs, and checkpointed tools for long autonomous runs. Test video input and completion size against real payload constraints.
Get your API key
Create an APINEED key for MiniMax M3 API and keep it in an environment variable.
export API_NEED_API_KEY=sk-apineed-v1-...Make your first request
Use minimax-m3 for MiniMax M3 API with the APINEED API. The request shape is compatible with OpenAI chat completions, so most SDKs only need a base URL change.
TypeScript SDKPythoncURLOpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.API_NEED_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://apineed.com/v1"
});
const result = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "minimax-m3",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "Why is the sky blue?" }
]
});
console.log(result.choices[0].message.content);Enable streaming and fallbacks
Add stream: true when MiniMax M3 API should return server-sent events. APINEED keeps routing, provider health, and fallback handling behind the same endpoint.
curl https://apineed.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_NEED_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "minimax-m3",
"stream": true,
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
}'MiniMax M3 API Endpoint
MiniMax M3 API accepts chat conversations here with streaming or non-streaming text output; the supported controls are listed on this page.
POST
/v1/chat/completions- Authorization
- Bearer $API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- minimax-m3
Parameters
MiniMax M3 API parameters currently listed for minimax-m3 by the OpenRouter Models API. [1]
| Name | Type | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
frequency_penalty | number | Supported | Penalizes repeated token frequency. |
include_reasoning | boolean | Supported | Includes reasoning content in the response when available. |
logit_bias | object | Supported | Adjusts the likelihood of selected tokens. |
logprobs | boolean | Supported | Returns token log probabilities. |
max_tokens | integer | Supported | Limits generated output tokens. |
min_p | number | Supported | Applies minimum-probability sampling. |
presence_penalty | number | Supported | Penalizes tokens already present in the output. |
reasoning | object | Supported | Controls reasoning behavior and token allocation. |
repetition_penalty | number | Supported | Controls repetition across generated tokens. |
response_format | object | Supported | Requests a specific response format. |
seed | integer | Supported | Requests deterministic sampling when supported by the provider. |
stop | string or array | Supported | Stops generation at the supplied sequence. |
structured_outputs | boolean | Supported | Enables schema-constrained structured output. |
temperature | number | Supported | Controls sampling randomness. |
tool_choice | string or object | Supported | Controls which tool the model may call. |
tools | array | Supported | Defines tools available to the model. |
top_k | integer | Supported | Restricts sampling to the highest-probability tokens. |
top_logprobs | integer | Supported | Sets how many top-token log probabilities are returned. |
top_p | number | Supported | Controls nucleus sampling. |
MiniMax M3 API Q&A
Model-specific answers for teams comparing MiniMax M3 API on capability, benchmark evidence, integration, and cost.
Where does MiniMax M3 API rank in LLM2014?
MiniMax M3 ranks #19 with a 40.94 median score in the July 2026 logic table.
Can MiniMax M3 API process video?
Yes. The catalog lists text, image, and video input with text output.
What is the MiniMax M3 APINEED price?
See the live pricing table above for the current API Need input and output prices for minimax-m3.
Is MiniMax M3 suitable for real-time chat?
MiniMax M3 API's benchmark run took 985 seconds on average, so direct latency tests are necessary before interactive deployment.
Which endpoint serves MiniMax M3 API?
Call MiniMax M3 API through https://apineed.com/v1/chat/completions with minimax-m3 as the model value. Existing OpenAI SDK clients usually need only the APINEED base URL and key.
How do I validate MiniMax M3 API before release?
Evaluate MiniMax M3 API on representative prompts, record quality, latency, and token use, then choose reasoning settings and fallbacks from those results.
How to Deploy the MiniMax M3 API on apineed.com
Deploy MiniMax M3 API through APINEED after validating its model-specific trade-offs above. The API key, credit, and endpoint flow stays consistent across the catalog.
Add credits for MiniMax M3 API
Add credits on APINEED before deploying the MiniMax M3 API. Pay-as-you-go billing lets usage start small and scale with production traffic.
Get your API key
Create an APINEED API key for the MiniMax M3 API. The same key can call MiniMax M3 and other AI APIs through apineed.com.
Set the model slug
Use minimax-m3 as the model value when you deploy the MiniMax M3 API. Keep the APINEED base URL at https://apineed.com/v1.
Send a request to MiniMax M3 API
Send chat completions or responses to the MiniMax M3 API from Claude Code, Codex, or any custom agent. The request keeps its OpenAI-compatible shape.