MiniMax M3 Uncensored vs MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 costs less on both: $0.09 in and $0.36 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $4.00 out for MiniMax M3 Uncensored. Both on one key at UplinkSwitch, each next to its developer's list price.
Prices · per million tokens, USD
Get a key| Tokens | MiniMax M3 Uncensoredminimax-m3-uncensored | MiniMax M3minimax-m3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.75no list price | $0.09MiniMax lists $0.30 · 70% under |
| Cached input | $0.1875no list price | $0.018MiniMax lists $0.06 · 70% under |
| Output | $4.00no list price | $0.36MiniMax lists $1.20 · 70% under |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | 524,288 tokens |
| Input | text, image | text, image, video |
| Released | — | 2026-06-01 |
| Formats | OpenAI SDK | OpenAI SDK |
| Developer | MiniMax | MiniMax |
List price: each developer's published rate, read October 2026. A model with no cached rate bills cached tokens at its input rate. Live from GET https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog.
What the same work costs · USD, here and at list
| Work | MiniMax M3 Uncensored | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 chat requests | $3.50 | $0.36list $1.20 |
| 100 long documents | $4.55 | $0.522list $1.74 |
| A month of both, daily | $241.50 | $26.46list $88.20 |
A chat request is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens; a long document is 50,000 in and 2,000 out; the month is 1,000 chats and 100 documents a day for 30 days, uncached. Over that month MiniMax M3 costs $215.04 less here.
Same key, same URL
One base URL and one key serve both models. The MiniMax M3 Uncensored API and the MiniMax M3 API answer at the same base URL in the OpenAI format, so a client or SDK setup moves between them by changing the model id. The request below calls MiniMax M3 Uncensored; put minimax-m3 in the model field to call MiniMax M3 instead.
shell
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"minimax-m3-uncensored","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Model pages: MiniMax M3 Uncensored API, MiniMax M3 API. Pricing by family: MiniMax. More comparisons: MiniMax M3 vs Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs MiniMax M3.
Questions
- Which costs less, MiniMax M3 Uncensored or MiniMax M3?
- MiniMax M3 costs less on both: $0.09 in and $0.36 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $4.00 out for MiniMax M3 Uncensored.
- Can I switch between them by changing the model id?
- Yes. Both answer in the OpenAI SDK format at the same base URL with the same key. Change the model id from minimax-m3-uncensored to minimax-m3 and nothing else.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee. Each top-up locks your prices for 30 days.
- Is MiniMax M3 Uncensored the better pick?
- Better depends on the job; this page compares what the catalog can measure. MiniMax M3 costs less on both: $0.09 in and $0.36 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $4.00 out for MiniMax M3 Uncensored. MiniMax M3 Uncensored takes 262,144 tokens of context against 1,000,000 for MiniMax M3. Both run on the same key, so the fair test is your own prompt sent to each model id.