MiniMax-M3 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: MiniMax-M3
Author: MiniMax

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 8 · released Jun 1, 2026

Provider: MiniMax
Release date: Jun 1, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 427B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image, Video to Text; OpenRouter
License: MiniMax Community; Hugging Face
Context window: 1.05M tokens; OpenRouter
Hosting: OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 854 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 427 GB at 8-bit, about 214 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 8 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of
27	AA SpeedSpeed · as “MiniMax-M3” Unverified	Speed	13 tok/s	43
32	AA IntelligenceReasoning · as “MiniMax-M3”	Reasoning	18.9	50
34	GPQA DiamondReasoning · as “MiniMax-M3”	Reasoning	90.9%	100
35	Document ArenaVision · as “MiniMax-M3”	Vision	1,435	40
59	LiveBenchReasoning · as “minimax-m3”	Reasoning	67.3%	64
60	WebDev ArenaCoding · as “MiniMax-M3”	Coding	1,484	82
61	Vision ArenaVision · as “MiniMax-M3”	Vision	1,231	85
72	Epoch ECIReasoning · as “MiniMax-M3”	Reasoning	147.6	100

Versions and release history

6 versions in this line since Jun 5, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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