MiniMax M3 pricing for pr review

Quick start

Call MiniMax M3 with the OpenAI Python SDK pointed at api.minimax.chat:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.minimax.chat/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["MINIMAX_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax-m3",
    max_tokens=3000,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Your prompt here"}]
)
# Cost: ~$0.006000 per call at standard rates
# Input:  $0.30/MTok
# Output: $1.20/MTok

How MiniMax M3 compares on cost

Per-call cost for all models scoring 50+ on pr review benchmarks. Hover for details.

Highest-quality affordable option: Claude Sonnet 5 at $0.0460/call (7.7x the cost, 96/100 quality). MiniMax M3 is already the cheapest choice for pr review.

What drives pr review cost

A pull request review carries the diff, the surrounding context, and often the PR description (heavy input, moderate output). Cost scales with PR size rather than with how much the model says, so the expensive reviews are the ones nobody wants to read anyway. Splitting large PRs is a cost control as much as an engineering practice.

For MiniMax M3 specifically, that means output tokens cost 4.0x more than input, at $1.20 vs $0.30 per MTok. At this use case’s 8,000/3,000 token split, output accounts for 60% of the $0.006000 per-call cost.

MiniMax M3 quality benchmarks for pr review

Benchmark data for pr review is pending for MiniMax M3. Test against your own evaluation suite before moving to production.

Benchmark data is not yet available for MiniMax M3. We recommend testing against your own evaluation criteria.

About MiniMax M3

Prices from platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview (read 2026-10-11). Long context (>512K tokens) is billed above the listed input and output rates. Cache hit: $0.06/MTok input. No batch discount published. Not yet benchmarked, so never recommended.

Other models from MiniMax

You can compare MiniMax M3 head-to-head against any other model on our model comparison pages, or track how pricing has changed over time on the pricing history tracker.

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