13%MiniMax M3 Preview API
MiniMax·Vision· 100.0% success (7d)
MiniMax M3 Preview is a 524K-context multimodal preview model for coding, reasoning, agents, tools, image understanding, and video understanding.
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
OpenRouter $0.300
Output / 1M tokens
OpenRouter $1.20
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 6
Specifications
- Context window
- 524K
- Max output
- 66K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- MiniMax
- Live sellers
- 7
- Requests / 24h
- 550
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax-m3-preview",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About MiniMax M3 Preview
MiniMax M3 Preview is a multimodal language model developed by MiniMax. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results and handling large contexts of up to 524K tokens. Its 524K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 66K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 28, 2026, MiniMax M3 Preview costs $0.338 per 1M input tokens and $1.35 per 1M output tokens on Qubax. A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $1.35. Measured availability over the last 7 days: 100.0%. 7 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 550 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the MiniMax M3 Preview API cost?
On Qubax, MiniMax M3 Preview costs $0.338 per 1M input tokens and $1.35 per 1M output tokens.
Is the MiniMax M3 Preview API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use MiniMax M3 Preview as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
How do I pay for MiniMax M3 Preview API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of MiniMax M3 Preview?
MiniMax M3 Preview supports a context window of 524K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with MiniMax M3 Preview?
You can use MiniMax M3 Preview to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is MiniMax M3 Preview on Qubax?
Its 7-day success rate is 100.0%. Responses stream token by token. 7 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
MiniMax M3 Preview vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: which should I choose?
MiniMax M3 Preview by MiniMax and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B by Other are both strong models in a similar price tier. MiniMax M3 Preview excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, MiniMax M3 Preview starts at $0.338/1M input tokens while NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B comes in at $0.188/1M, so NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B may be worth considering if you need to minimize per-token cost. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use MiniMax M3 Preview for commercial projects?
Yes. MiniMax M3 Preview on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use MiniMax M3 Preview on Qubax?
Live market prices
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.