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MiniMax M3 vs Seedream 5 Pro

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
Seedream 5 Pro
bytedance/seedream-5-pro
Provider
MiniMax
ByteDance
Family
MiniMax M
Seedream
Modality
text
image
Context window
1,000,000 tok
Max output
4,096 tok
Released
2026-06-01
2026-07-23
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$0.300 /1M
Output price
$1.20 /1M
Per image
$0.045 /img
Tools
Streaming
yes
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
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
Seedream 5 Pro
bytedance/seedream-5-pro
Full spec →

Seedream 5 Pro is ByteDance's high-quality image generation and editing model with text prompts, up to 10 reference images, and 1K, 2K, or explicit pixel-size output controls.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art

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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"}],
)

# Seedream 5 Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedream-5-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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