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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Coding Benchmark

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding,...

Code Mode#87Recommended
Context524,288tokens
Max Output512,000tokens
Inputmodalities
Price$0.30/1M input

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Coding Performance

Coding benchmarks and performance metrics for development tasks

Kilo Bench

% Completion on Terminal Bench 2.0
47.6%
Cost per attempt (USD)
$10.35
Benchmark
Terminal Bench 2.0

Official Kilo eval results. Cost is averaged per complete benchmark attempt.

Security

Enkrypt AI red-team scores for MiniMax: MiniMax M3. Each value is the share of successful attacks on a 0–100 scale — lower is safer.

Overall risk
31.3

Lower is safer

Safety

39.1/ 100

Composite safety risk from Enkrypt red-team evaluations. Lower is safer.

NIST

31.0/ 100

Average attack success across NIST-mapped tests: bias, harm, toxicity, CBRN, and insecure code.

OWASP

35.0/ 100

Weighted average of the same tests using OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025 risk rankings.

Attack categories

Percentage of successful attacks in each Enkrypt red-team category.

Jailbreak26.3/ 100

Share of jailbreak tests that bypassed the model's safety constraints.

Bias79.6/ 100

Share of tests that elicited biased responses.

Harmful content5.6/ 100

Share of tests that produced dangerous, violent, or hateful content.

Toxicity2.4/ 100

Share of tests that produced toxic or abusive content.

CBRN49.2/ 100

Share of tests that elicited chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear assistance.

Insecure code20.0/ 100

Share of tests that produced vulnerable or malicious code.

Score
Value
Overall risk
31.3 / 100
Safety
39.1 / 100
NIST
31.0 / 100
OWASP
35.0 / 100
Jailbreak
26.3 / 100
Bias
79.6 / 100
Harmful content
5.6 / 100
Toxicity
2.4 / 100
CBRN
49.2 / 100
Insecure code
20.0 / 100

Security scores from the Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard · Last checked Oct 2, 2026

Real-World Usage

Real-world usage statistics from the Kilo Code community

Weekly Token Usage

Mode Rankings (Last Week)

Where this model ranks for each built-in mode

Code

Write, modify, and refactor code

#87

Ask

Get answers and explanations

No data

Debug

Diagnose and fix software issues

No data

Orchestrator

Coordinate tasks across multiple modes

No data

Real-world metrics from the Kilo Code Leaderboard

Pricing

Cost per 1 million tokens

Input Tokens
$0.30
per 1M tokens
Output Tokens
$1.20
per 1M tokens

Example Cost

Analyzing a 10,000 line codebase (≈40k input tokens, 10k output tokens) costs approximately $0.0240

Coding Capabilities

Features and parameters relevant to coding tasks

Coding Features

Function Calling
Can call external functions/APIs
Tool Choice
Control over function selection
Structured Outputs
JSON schema validation
Reasoning Tokens
Extended thinking for complex problems

Pricing details from OpenRouter

Technical Details

Architecture and implementation specifications

Specifications
Model ID
minimax/minimax-m3
Created
May 31, 2026
Tokenizer
Other
Input Modalities
TextImageVideo
Context Window
524,288 tokens
Max Completion Tokens
512,000 tokens
Input Price
$0.30 per 1M tokens
Output Price
$1.20 per 1M tokens
Cache Read Price
$0.06 per 1M tokens
Content Moderation
Disabled

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