MakerMiniMax
ReleasedOctober 19, 2026
API price (per 1M tokens)$0.15 in / $0.6 out
Open weightsNo
Best for
- Low-cost coding agents
- High-volume jobs where you check every answer
- Experiments ahead of the open-weight release
Strengths
- Scores 42–43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up 13 points on MiniMax M3
- About $0.22 per Artificial Analysis index task, below GLM-5.3-Flash ($0.28) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.26)
- Cache reads at $0.015 per million tokens
Watch out for
- 93% hallucination rate on Artificial Analysis's AA-Omniscience test: it almost never says 'I don't know'
- Open weights are promised but not yet out, and the license isn't published
Ranking history
| Edition | Power Rankings | Coding | Best Value | Open-Weight Watch | Image Generation | Video Generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 45, 2026 | — | — | #8 (85) | — | — | — |
| Week 44, 2026 | — | — | #7 (87) | — | — | — |