compare/MiniMax M3vsFLUX 3 Video

MiniMax M3 vs FLUX 3 Video

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.

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 MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
FLUX 3 Video
black-forest-labs/flux-3-video
ProviderMiniMaxBlack Forest Labs
FamilyMiniMax MFLUX
Modalitytextvideo
Context window1,000,000 tok
Max output4,096 tok
Released2026-06-012026-08-04
Input price$0.300 /1M$0.170 /sec
Output price$1.20 /1M
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Tools
Streamingyes
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Full spec →

MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
FLUX 3 Video
black-forest-labs/flux-3-video
Full spec →

FLUX 3 Video is Black Forest Labs' video generation model. It generates video from a text prompt (t2v), animates one or more reference images (i2v), or continues an existing clip (v2v), with synchronized audio, up to fhd resolution, and 5-20 second durations.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# 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 MiniMax M3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try FLUX 3 Video — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="black-forest-labs/flux-3-video",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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