MiniMax M3
Live per-token pricing via OpenRouter, verified 11 Aug 2026. Batch and long-context tiers are not published in the feed, so they are omitted rather than estimated.
An estimate from published per-token pricing and your assumptions. Actual costs vary by provider and usage tier.
Same workload as the calculator above, at each model's current price. Monthly USD.
Routed-token share over time. A price line joins it as real changes are recorded.
Mid cost · adoption falling. Observed relationship, not proof of causation.
Availability monitoring is derived from OpenRouter provider uptime; it refreshes with the daily build. Latency and throughput are not exposed by the data source, so we do not report them rather than estimate.
| Context window | 524K |
| Reasoning | ✓ Supported |
| Tool calling | ✓ Supported |
| Structured output | ✓ Supported |
| Image input | ✓ Supported |
| Audio input | — Not supported |
| Video input | ✓ Supported |
| Open weights | ✓ Yes |
| API availability | ✓ Yes |
| Commercial license | Verify terms with the provider |
- Current rank
- #11
- Peak rank
- #1
- Routed share
- 2.30%
- Peak share
- 10.30%
- Weeks ranked
- 11
- First tracked
- 1 Jun 2026
- Region of origin
- Asia · China
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Model family
- Not publicly disclosed
- Release date
- Not publicly disclosed
- Type
- Multimodal (text + image)
- Modalities
- text, image, video
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Weights
- Open weight
- License
- Not publicly disclosed
In the week ending 11 Aug 2026, MiniMax M3 fell 2 places to #11 with 2.30% of routed tokens and a peak rank of #1. Over 11 tracked weeks its routed share has moved from 0.74% to 2.30% (+1.56 pp).
A sourced weekly interpretation of what is driving this model's routing is added as the record accumulates. yellow3 does not publish a reason for movement unless the routed-traffic data or a cited source supports it.
| Week ending | Rank | Routed share | Δ share | Movement | Region rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026 | #11 | 2.30% | -0.86 | ▼ 2places down | #7 | ranked |
| 4 Aug 2026 | #9 | 3.16% | -0.34 | ▼ 2places down | #7 | ranked |
| 28 Jul 2026 | #7 | 3.51% | -1.72 | ▼ 2places down | #6 | ranked |
| 21 Jul 2026 | #5 | 5.22% | -2.16 | ▼ 1places down | #5 | ranked |
| 14 Jul 2026 | #4 | 7.38% | -1.57 | ▼ 1places down | #4 | ranked |
| 7 Jul 2026 | #3 | 8.95% | +1.11 | –no change | #3 | ranked |
| 30 Jun 2026 | #3 | 7.84% | -0.12 | –no change | #3 | ranked |
| 23 Jun 2026 | #3 | 7.95% | -2.35 | ▼ 2places down | #3 | ranked |
| 16 Jun 2026 | #1 | 10.30% | +2.15 | ▲ 2places up | #1 | ranked |
| 9 Jun 2026 | #3 | 8.15% | +7.40 | ▲ 26places up | #3 | ranked |
| 2 Jun 2026 | #29 | 0.74% | – | NEW | #12 | NEW |
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | $0.15 | $0.60 | ▼ 50% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 31 Jul 2026 | $0.30 | $1.20 | ▲ 100% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 28 Jul 2026 | $0.15 | $0.60 | ▼ 50% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | OpenRouter listed price |
- 1 Jun 2026First trackedDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 9 Jun 2026Entered top 20Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 9 Jun 2026Entered top 10Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 9 Jun 2026Entered top 3Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 9 Jun 2026Biggest weekly rise +26 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 16 Jun 2026Reached number oneDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 16 Jun 2026Peak routed share 10.30%Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 23 Jun 2026Biggest weekly fall -2 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
Region reflects where the model's developer is headquartered. Figures are OpenRouter routing traffic, aggregated over a trailing seven days - developer routing behaviour, not the whole market.