Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 5$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.6 Sol$12.500/MGPT-5.6 Terra$5.000/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 5$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.6 Sol$12.500/MGPT-5.6 Terra$5.000/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/M
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MiniMax M3 (free)

text+image+video->text

MiniMax M3 (free) is offered on OpenRouter's free tier — capacity is best-effort and provided by community/promotional partners. Available via MiniMax. 1,048,576-token context. Free tier on OpenRouter.

MiniMax M3 (free) is a multimodal AI model from MiniMax. It costs $0.000 per million input tokens and $0.000 per million output tokens (blended $0.000/M), with a 1,048,576-token context window.

INPUT
$0.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.000/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
1,048,576
tokens
What it is good at
  • Zero marginal cost
  • Useful for prototyping and evals
  • Behaviour identical to the paid tier of the same model
  • Multimodal: handles images alongside text
Typical use cases
  • Prototyping
  • Hobby projects
  • Evaluation against the paid tier

Benchmarks

No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does MiniMax M3 (free) cost?

MiniMax M3 (free) costs $0.000 per million input tokens and $0.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.000 per million tokens.

What is MiniMax M3 (free)'s context window?

MiniMax M3 (free) supports up to 1,048,576 tokens of context in a single request.

What is MiniMax M3 (free) best for?

MiniMax M3 (free) is well suited to Zero marginal cost, Useful for prototyping and evals and Behaviour identical to the paid tier of the same model.

Who makes MiniMax M3 (free)?

MiniMax M3 (free) is developed and served by MiniMax.

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