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.
| MiniMax M3 minimax/m3 | GLM-5.2 Fast Preview zai-org/glm-5.2-fast-preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Z.ai |
| Family | MiniMax M | |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tok | — |
| Max output | 4,096 tok | — |
| Released | 2026-06-01 | 2026-09-08 |
| Input price | $0.300 /1M | $2.80 /1M |
| Output price | $1.20 /1M | $8.80 /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 MiniMax M3
client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/m3",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try GLM-5.2 Fast Preview — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="zai-org/glm-5.2-fast-preview",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)