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MiniMax M3: price on every cloud

Open weights · 427 billion parameters · Mixture of experts · 1,048,576-token context · licence other

Per token, by cloud

US dollars per million tokens, each cloud's cheapest region.
CloudInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokensCheapest region
Telnyx$0.27$1.10global
DeepInfra$0.28$1.10global
Fireworks AI$0.30$1.20global
Nebius$0.30$1.20us-central1
Alibaba Cloud——not sold per token
Anthropic——not sold per token
AWS——not sold per token
Azure——not sold per token
Cloudflare——not sold per token
Core42——not sold per token
Crusoe——not sold per token
Databricks——not sold per token
Gemini API——not sold per token
Google Cloud——not sold per token
Groq——not sold per token
HF Endpoints——not sold per token
Huawei Cloud——not sold per token
IBM watsonx——not sold per token
Mistral——not sold per token
OCI——not sold per token
OpenAI——not sold per token
Snowflake——not sold per token
Together AI——not sold per token
xAI——not sold per token

Run it yourself

It needs 1067.6 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
Crusoemi300x.8x8 × MI300X 192 GB$27.60$20,148
Nebiusgpu-h200-sxm.8gpu-128vcpu-1600gb8 × H200 141 GB$43.20$31,536
Together AIhgx-h200.8gpu8 × H200 141 GB$47.92$34,982
OCIBM.GPU.MI300X.88 × MI300X 192 GB$48.00$35,040
AWS2 × p4de.24xlarge, joined by EFA8 × A100 80 GB in each$54.89$40,073
Azure2 × Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4, joined by InfiniBand8 × A100 80 GB in each$65.54$47,844
Google Clouda3-ultragpu-8g8 × H200 141 GB$84.81$61,909
Alibaba Cloud2 × ecs.gn8v-8x.16xlarge, joined by eRDMA8 × GPU H 96 GB in each$116.98$85,397

Several servers: the model is sized across identical servers that hold it together, on instance types whose vendor documents a network between servers; the price is all of them. It is shown where no one server holds the model, or where it costs less than the one that does.

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List prices collected 4 November 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.