Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Qwen3.6 Plus alibaba/qwen3.6-plus | MiniMax M3 minimax/m3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | MiniMax |
| Family | MiniMax M | |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | — | 4,096 tok |
| Released | 2026-08-10 | 2026-06-01 |
| Input price | $0.500 /1M | $0.300 /1M |
| Output price | $3.00 /1M | $1.20 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | yes | — |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | — | — |
| JSON mode | yes | — |
| Reasoning | yes | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Qwen3.6 Plus
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3.6-plus",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try MiniMax M3 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/m3",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)