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MiniMax M3 vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Provider
MiniMax
Anthropic
Family
MiniMax M
Claude 4
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
200,000 tok
Max output
4,096 tok
8,192 tok
Released
2026-06-01
2026-05-22
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$0.300 /1M
$1.00 /1M
Output price
$1.20 /1M
$5.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.100 /1M
Cache write
$1.25 /1M
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
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MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
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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
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Full spec →

Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers similar levels of coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed of larger models.

Strengths
  • Fastest Claude
  • Cheap enough for per-token workloads
  • Still supports tools + vision
Use cases
ClassifiersRoutingHigh-throughput chatReal-time agents

Benchmarks

MiniMax M3
Claude Haiku 4.5
HumanEval
85.2
MMLU
80.1

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

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

# Claude Haiku 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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