MiniMax M3 API in India

MiniMax M3 is MiniMax's flagship open-weight model for coding and agents, live on unoblox as minimaxai/minimax-m3. It accepts text and image input, supports reasoning and tools, and bills in rupees on a GST invoice.

What MiniMax M3 is

MiniMax released M3 on 1 June 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model of about 428 billion total parameters with roughly 23 billion active per token, built around MiniMax's sparse attention design for long contexts. MiniMax describes it as combining coding performance, long context and native multimodal understanding. unoblox lists a context length of 524,288 tokens, with text and image input and text output.

Note that the context limit shown on unoblox is the one that applies to your requests, so size prompts against it.

Where it fits

• Coding and refactoring agents that work across a large repository.
• Visual input plus text, such as reading a UI screenshot alongside a bug report.
• Long-context analysis within a half-million-token window.

Consider M3 when you want an open-weight coding-oriented model with image input. Compare it with MiMo V2.6 Pro and Qwen3.5 397B on your own tasks; model rankings shift by workload.

₹ pricing for MiniMax M3

On unoblox, MiniMax M3 costs ₹26.96 per million input tokens and ₹105.91 per million output tokens. That displayed price is what you are billed per token; nothing is added on top. Cached input tokens are listed at ₹5.39 per million. The model's context length on unoblox is 524,288 tokens.

Model	Input (₹ / 1M tokens)	Output (₹ / 1M tokens)
MiniMax M3	₹26.96	₹105.91
MiMo V2.6 Pro	₹41.40	₹83.77
Qwen3.5 397B A17B	₹43.33	₹288.85
DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)	₹125.17	₹250.33

As a worked example, a month with 20 million input tokens and 4 million output tokens comes to about ₹962.84 on MiniMax M3 (₹539.20 for input plus ₹423.64 for output). Live rates are always on the model page, and each request is rounded up to the nearest paisa.

Calling MiniMax M3 from the unoblox endpoint

unoblox is OpenAI-compatible, so any OpenAI SDK works by changing the base URL and key.

curl https://api.unoblox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_UNOBLOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "minimaxai/minimax-m3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this support ticket in two lines."}],
    "max_tokens": 512
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_UNOBLOX_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.unoblox.ai/v1",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimaxai/minimax-m3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this support ticket in two lines."}],
    max_tokens=512,
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

For image input, pass an image_url content part:

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimaxai/minimax-m3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [
        {"type": "text", "text": "What does this chart show?"},
        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/chart.png"}},
    ]}],
    max_tokens=512,
)

Get a key at https://unoblox.ai/sign-in and top up your wallet in rupees.

Notes on parameters, billing and data

Use max_tokens to cap output. The model runs at an external provider, not in India, so we claim no data residency. unoblox provides rupee pricing, GST invoicing and one endpoint.

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M3 available in India? Yes, as minimaxai/minimax-m3 on https://api.unoblox.ai/v1.

What context length does unoblox list? 524,288 tokens.

Does it take images? unoblox lists text and image input.

Does it support tool calling and reasoning? Yes, both are listed in the catalogue.

Is it open weight? MiniMax publishes the weights under its own community licence, which is not a standard open-source licence; read its terms before self-hosting.

Do I get a GST invoice? Yes, usage is billed in rupees with GST.

Get started in rupees → https://unoblox.ai/sign-in