Home / Alternatives / MiniMax-M3 MM Alternatives to MiniMax-M3 For coding help for non-developers, MiniMax-M3 scores 45 and costs $2.70 per 1,000 requests. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 31 $0.53 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 89% similar OA GPT-6 Luna OpenAI Overall 37+6
Blended / 1M $0.20−62%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Luna vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +6 Coding +3 Writing −15 Support −18 Value +10 Context 1.1M Back
88% similar Open weights NV Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Overall 34+3
Blended / 1M $1.05+100%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +3 Coding +6 Writing −3 Support −11 Value −2 Context 262K Back
86% similar G Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google Overall 29−2
Blended / 1M $0.85+62%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs MiniMax-M3 Overall −2 Coding −9 Writing +4 Support −3 Value −5 Context 1M Back
85% similar An Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic Overall 44+13
Blended / 1M $0.20−62%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +13 Coding +7 Writing −22 Support −15 Value +18 Context 1M Back
79% similar MM MiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMax Overall –
Blended / 1M $0.26−50%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page MiniMax-M3.1-Flash vs MiniMax-M3 Overall – Coding +15 Writing – Support – Value – Context 1M Back
79% similar Mi Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI Overall 37+6
Blended / 1M $2.07+293%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Mistral Large 4 vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +6 Coding +10 Writing −12 Support −3 Value −2 Context 1M Back
79% similar xA Grok 4.7 xAI Overall 35+4
Blended / 1M $3.00+471%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Grok 4.7 vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +4 Coding +7 Writing −10 Support −18 Value −6 Context 500K Back
78% similar Open weights DS DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek Overall 53+22
Blended / 1M $1.98+277%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page DeepSeek V4 Pro vs MiniMax-M3 Overall +22 Coding +11 Writing +15 Support +10 Value +15 Context 1M Back
78% similar Open weights G Gemma 4 31B IT Google Overall 28−3
Blended / 1M $0.25−52%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemma 4 31B IT vs MiniMax-M3 Overall −3 Coding −15 Writing +4 Support +2 Value ±0 Context 262K Back
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