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MiniMax-M3

MiniMax · image understanding

Live

MiniMax-M3 supports image understanding: read screenshots and documents, OCR, analyze photos. It shares the same API key and balance as the chat models.

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go, metered per call. Currency: CNY per million tokens. Balance never expires.

Input tokens
¥4.20
Per million tokens · the prompts and context you send to the model
Output tokens
¥16.80
Per million tokens · text generated by the model (output priced at 4.0× input)
Cache hit (read)
¥0.84
Vendor list cache price · keep the system prompt stable to hit the cache
Tiered input pricing
Input ≤512K: in ¥4.20 / out ¥16.80 / cache hit ¥0.84 per 1M tokens; input >512K: in ¥8.40 / out ¥33.60 / cache hit ¥1.68

Cache hits cost less: ¥0.84 per million (about 1/5 of the input price) — save about 80% on repeated prefixes

Live pricing follows GET /v1/models responses; the console itemizes the input, output and cached tokens of every call.

Capabilities & use cases

Overview
MiniMax-M3 is live on the ShinLinkAI gateway and supports image understanding: read screenshots and documents, OCR, analyze photos. Input price ¥4.20 / 1M tokens (for input ≤512K; input >512K uses the higher tier).
Key strengths
Image understandingScreenshot recognitionDocument understandingOCR
Recommended use cases
Screenshot Q&A, document and photo understanding, and mixed text-and-image conversations.

Example call

Fully OpenAI-compatible — just point base_url at ShinLinkAI. No changes to your application code.

curl
curl https://api.shinloo.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-sl-…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "minimax-m3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
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