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| Attribute | MiniMax M3minimax-m3 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Google Vertex AI)gemini-3.1-flash-image-vertex | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.30 / 1M | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.20 / 1M | — | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.30 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.30 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.30 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | — | $0 / 1M |
| Request | — | $0.067 / request | — |
| Billing | — | Pay Per Request | — |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | N/A | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | No | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | No | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | MiniMax | ||
| Category | chat | image | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay Per Request | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax, supporting text, image, and video inputs with text output and a 1M-token context window. It is designed for long-horizon agentic workflows, coding, and tool-driven task execution, enabling sustained reasoning across complex tasks. Built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), the model dramatically improves long-context efficiency by replacing full attention with KV-block selection, reducing compute costs at 1M-token contexts while maintaining strong performance. Trained as a native multimodal model and optimized for multi-turn, production-style collaboration, MiniMax-M3 excels at extended, multi-step workflows rather than single-turn interactions. | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image served from Google Vertex AI. Billed per image at US$0.067. Call it through /v1/chat/completions with stream set to false; the image is returned in the message content as a base64 data URI. Maximum output resolution is 2K. A request for a larger size, such as 4K or 4096x4096, returns a 2K image with the same aspect ratio at the same price. When a size is reduced, the response carries an X-Image-Resolution-Capped header with the requested and delivered size, for example 4096x4096->2048x2048. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |