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.
| Grok 4.6 xai/grok-4.6 | MiniMax M3 minimax/m3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | MiniMax |
| Family | Grok 4 | MiniMax M |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 500,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 4,096 tok |
| Released | 2026-08-12 | 2026-06-01 |
| Input price | $1.00 /1M | $0.300 /1M |
| Output price | $1.00 /1M | $1.20 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | — |
| JSON mode | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
xAI's Grok 4.6, a flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and visual work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling and structured outputs.
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 Grok 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try MiniMax M3 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/m3",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)