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MiniMax M3

Specs as of

MiniMax M3, released 1 Jun 2026: open-sourced weights, a 1M-token context, subscription pricing in yuan, and its rank on the Artificial Analysis index.

Specifications

Lab
MiniMax
Released
1 Jun 2026
Parameters
Not disclosed
Context window
1M tokens
License
Open-source (weights released about 10 days after the 1 Jun launch)
Pricing
¥119 per month for 18 billion tokens, roughly 15x the token volume of a comparable Claude plan

The benchmark claim

Global rank #7 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index; MiniMax reports 93.2% on GPQA Diamond, above Claude Opus 4.8 and 4.7independent

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Sources

Artificial Analysis; MiniMax technical report

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