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MiniMax M3 vs Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview

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
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview
xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview
ProviderMiniMaxxAI
FamilyMiniMax M
Modalitytextvideo
Context window1,000,000 tok
Max output4,096 tok
Released2026-06-012026-06-03
Input price$0.300 /1M$0.080 /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
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview
xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview
Full spec →

xAI's next-generation video generation model. Generates, edits, and extends videos from text and image inputs. Supports multiple aspect ratios and resolutions with improved quality over the previous generation.

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 Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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