MiniMax M3 Preview API: Pricing and Specs

MiniMax M3 Preview API

MiniMax M3 Preview is a large language model by MiniMax, available on the Venice API as minimax-m3-preview. It runs privately, with zero data retention.MiniMax-M3 preview is a 1.4T-parameter frontier model from MiniMax for coding, agentic workflows, and complex reasoning, served at fp8 with a 512K context window.

MiniMax M3 Preview API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`minimax-m3-preview`	Standard	Private	$0.30 / $1.20 per 1M

MiniMax M3 Preview specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	MiniMax
Released	Jun 12, 2026
Privacy	Private
Status	Stable
Open weights	Yes
Context window	512K tokens
Max output	128K tokens
Reasoning effort	Not adjustable
Served precision	FP8

How to use the MiniMax M3 Preview API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions with "model": "minimax-m3-preview" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "minimax-m3-preview",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain TEE attestation in two sentences." }]
  }'

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