MiniMax-M3
Weights availableOpen-weight MiniMax model with a 1M-token context window, image input and tool calling. Released June 2, 2026. Weights on Hugging Face.
Access details: MiniMax open weights (Hugging Face)
The Hugging Face repository. Download the weights and run them yourself or with a host.
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3Also on the MiniMax API as MiniMax-M3
Updated Oct 1, 2026
Capabilities & limits
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- Not published
- Image input
- Supported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Not published
Hosted price
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.20
What MiniMax charges for MiniMax-M3, its API version of this model.
Free to download. Running the weights costs whatever your hardware or host charges.
Price history
Oct 1, 2026
Input Not applicable per million tokens
Oct 1, 2026
Output Not applicable per million tokens
Technical details
- Parameters
- ~428B
- Active parameters
- ~23B
- Architecture
- Mixture-of-experts, native multimodal, MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA)
- Training / knowledge cutoff
- Not published
- Input modalities
- Text, image, video
- Output modalities
- Text
License
MiniMax Community License (MIT-style terms for non-commercial use; Commercial Use requires "Built with MiniMax M3" attribution and prior written authorization above US$20 million yearly revenue, otherwise a one-time notice)
From MiniMax
Official announcement ↗How they describe it
MiniMax-M3 is a native multimodal model with 1M context.
Release & lifecycle
- Published
- Jun 2, 2026
- available
- As of Oct 1, 2026