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MiniMax M3

minimax-m3

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.

Context
1M tokens
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Pricing

Input$0.30 / 1M
Output$1.20 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)$0.30 / 1M
Cache Write (1h)$0.30 / 1M
Cache Read$0.30 / 1M
Web Search$0 / 1M

Quick Start

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python
from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="minimax-m3",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="minimax-m3",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params
modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools
Extended4 params
reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

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minimax-m3

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