Using MiniMax M3 on OpenRouter

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call minimax/minimax-m3 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.30/1M input, $1.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified interface for Large Language Models with better pricing, improved uptime, and no subscription requirements. Route across providers for cost optimization and reliability.

OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.

Pricing on OpenRouter

Capabilities

About MiniMax M3

MiniMax's frontier open-weight multimodal model with MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) architecture enabling economical 1M-token context (1/20th compute vs prior generation). Scored 59% SWE-bench Pro, surpassing GPT-5.5. Accepts text, image, and video input. Max output 512K tokens. Pricing: $0.60/$2.40 per 1M tokens in/out (list). Open-weight model weights release pending.