MiniMax M3
minimax-m3
Last refreshed 2026-05-26. Next refresh: weekly.
MiniMax M3 is a watchlist entry, not a production pick; wait for published weights, API access, pricing, context, and benchmarks before planning a migration.
Decision context: pre-release watchlist status, 0 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-26.
Use it for
- Teams monitoring MiniMax M3's release
- MiniMax M2 users deciding whether to wait
- Architecture watchlists for long-context efficiency
Do not use it for
- Production launches that need model access today
- Cost estimates that need sourced token pricing
- Benchmark-led selections that need independent scores
Cheapest output
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No tracked output price
Provider routes
0
No provider route in seed
Quality / dollar
Unknown
No task benchmark coverage yet
Freshness
2026-05-26
Researched 1d ago
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
About
MiniMax M3 is an upcoming model from MiniMax, teased in May 2026 but not yet released. MiniMax highlighted MiniMax Sparse Attention, a GQA-based sparse attention mechanism using a two-stage block-selection approach, and claimed 9.7x faster prefill plus 15.6x faster decoding versus MiniMax M2 at 1M-token context while preserving output quality. No weights, API route, benchmarks, pricing, parameter count, license, or confirmed context-window spec has been officially published.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
