AI Launch Profile
MiniMax M3
MiniMax released M3 for coding, agent workflows, long-context reasoning, and native image and video understanding through MiniMax Code, Token Plans, and API access.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- MiniMax
- Launch date
- June 1, 2026
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Models, AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- AI Agent Developers, AI Engineers, Developers
- Pricing
- MiniMax offers M3 through paid Token Plans and usage-based API pricing. API cost varies by input length and service tier; verify current rates on official MiniMax pages.
- Free plan
- Not publicly confirmed
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 4
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked July 9, 2026
- Last updated
- July 9, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
7.7 / 10 · Solid
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Why this score
- Source & verification 8.0/10 — The official announcement, the model page, and the API overview — dated first-party sources. minimax.io
- Product evidence 8.5/10 — An open-weight release with an available API, a model page, and access through MiniMax Code and Token Plans. minimax.io
- Significance & novelty 7.5/10 — An open-weight model spanning coding, agent workflows, long-context reasoning, and native image and video understanding — a notable release. minimax.io
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 6.0/10 — Paid Token Plans and usage-based API pricing are documented; rates vary by input length and tier. platform.minimax.io
Evidence checked 2026-07-10
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Kingy AI Take
MiniMax released M3, an open-weight model for coding, agent workflows, long-context reasoning, and native image and video understanding, available through MiniMax Code, Token Plans, and API access (minimax.io). AI Engineers, Agent Developers, and Research Teams can weigh an open alternative with documented usage-based pricing. Performance claims are vendor-reported, so test reliability, latency, and total API cost on your own workloads before production use.
Who it is for
Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, and research teams evaluating coding, multimodal, or long-context model workflows.
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