MiniMax-M3 API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of MiniMax-M3 for your use-case.
Fastest
Inco (FAST)
Nebius (FP8)
SambaNova
Modular
FireworksOutput speed
Total 14 providers
Lowest Latency
Inco (FAST)Nebius (FP8)SambaNovaModularFireworksTime to first answer token
Total 14 providers
Lowest Price
CoreWeave (NVFP4)
GMI
Bitdeer AI
DeepInfra
Parasail (MXFP8)Blended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 14 providers
MiniMax-M3 is available through 14 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Inco (FAST) (446.1 t/s), Nebius (FP8) (298.5 t/s), and SambaNova (246.1 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 1764% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Inco (FAST) (6.04s), Nebius (FP8) (8.56s), and SambaNova (10.84s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, CoreWeave (NVFP4) (0.18), GMI (0.18), and Bitdeer AI (0.21) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 4.4x across providers.
- Inco (FAST) offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, CoreWeave (NVFP4) provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: MiniMax-M3
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
| Parasail | 1M | Open | $0.46 | 120 | 1.10 | 21.97 | 16.69 | ||
| CoreWeave | 262k | Open | $0.40 | 137 | 1.20 | 19.39 | 14.55 | ||
 Together AI | 1M | Open | $0.70 | 103 | 0.72 | 25.02 | 19.44 | ||
 Novita | 1M | Open | $0.46 | 79 | 1.73 | 33.53 | 25.44 | ||
| Inco | 1.05M | Open | $1.09 | 418 | 1.58 | 7.55 | 4.78 | ||
| Modular | 1M | Open | $0.46 | 186 | 0.94 | 14.40 | 10.77 | ||
| Nebius | 1.05M | Open | $1.91 | 265 | 1.88 | 11.30 | 7.53 | ||
 SiliconFlow | 1M | Open | $0.45 | 101 | 1.41 | 26.21 | 19.84 | ||
| Bitdeer AI | 524k | Open | $0.64 | 118 | 2.83 | 23.99 | 16.92 | ||
 MiniMax | 512k | Open | $0.51 | 92 | 1.90 | 29.05 | 21.72 | ||
| DeepInfra | 524k | Open | $0.44 | 23 | 0.91 | 110.29 | 87.50 | ||
| GMI | 1.05M | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| SambaNova | 1.05M | Open | $3.83 | 246 | 2.69 | 12.83 | 8.11 | ||
| Fireworks | 524k | Open | $0.50 | 139 | 1.07 | 19.11 | 14.44 | ||
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about MiniMax-M3 providers
MiniMax-M3 is available through 14 API providers: Parasail (MXFP8), CoreWeave (NVFP4), Together AI, Novita, Inco (FAST), Modular, Nebius (FP8), SiliconFlow (FP8), Bitdeer AI, MiniMax, DeepInfra, GMI, SambaNova, and Fireworks. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
MiniMax-M3 is currently available through 14 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for MiniMax-M3 by output speed are Inco (FAST) (446.1 t/s), Nebius (FP8) (298.5 t/s), and SambaNova (246.1 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first answer token for MiniMax-M3 are Inco (FAST) (6.04s), Nebius (FP8) (8.56s), and SambaNova (10.84s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for MiniMax-M3 by blended price are CoreWeave (NVFP4) ($0.18 per 1M tokens), GMI ($0.18 per 1M tokens), and Bitdeer AI ($0.21 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for MiniMax-M3 are CoreWeave (NVFP4) ($0.23 per 1M input tokens), GMI ($0.24 per 1M input tokens), and Bitdeer AI ($0.28 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for MiniMax-M3 are CoreWeave (NVFP4) ($0.96 per 1M output tokens), GMI ($0.96 per 1M output tokens), and Bitdeer AI ($1.10 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for MiniMax-M3 vary up to 4.4x across providers. The most affordable is CoreWeave (NVFP4) at $0.18 per 1M tokens, while SambaNova charges $0.78 per 1M tokens.
Output speed for MiniMax-M3 varies significantly across providers. Inco (FAST) is the fastest at 446.1 t/s, which is 18.6x faster than DeepInfra at 23.9 t/s.
13 of 14 providers support JSON mode for MiniMax-M3: Parasail (MXFP8), CoreWeave (NVFP4), Together AI, Novita, Modular, Nebius (FP8), SiliconFlow (FP8), Bitdeer AI, MiniMax, DeepInfra, GMI, SambaNova, and Fireworks.
All 14 providers of MiniMax-M3 support function calling (tool use).
For MiniMax-M3, Inco (FAST) offers the best performance with highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, CoreWeave (NVFP4) provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for MiniMax-M3, consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about MiniMax-M3's intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview