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  1. MiniMax M3MiniMaxRemove
  2. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Google Vertex AI)GoogleRemove
minimax-m3 vs gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image-vertex
AttributeMiniMax M3minimax-m3Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Google Vertex AI)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image-vertex
Pricing
Input$0.30 / 1M—
Output$1.20 / 1M—
Cache Write (5m)$0.30 / 1MNot applicable
Cache Write (1h)$0.30 / 1MNot applicable
Cache Read$0.30 / 1MNot applicable
Web Search$0 / 1M—
Request—$0.0336 / request
Billing—Pay Per Request
Context
Max context1MN/A
Max outputN/AN/A
Capabilities
VisionYesYes
Function CallingYesNo
JSON ModeYesNo
StreamingYesNo
Catalogue
ProviderMiniMaxGoogle
Categorychatimage
Charge typePay As You GoPay Per Request
Released——
Description
SummaryMiniMax-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 Lite Image served from Google Vertex AI. Billed per image at US$0.0336. 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 1K. A request for a larger size returns a 1K 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.