CC MiniMax M3
Minimax · text, image, video → text
For Claude Code only
Input$0.1 /M
Output$0.1 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
CC MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare CC MiniMax M3 from Minimax and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
CC MiniMax M3
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.1
$1.69
Output /M
$0.1
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
524,288
131,072
Time to First Token
2.8 s
12.5 s
Throughput
54.8 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
cc-minimax-m3qwen3.8-max
Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
cc-minimax-m3qwen3.8-max
1380142014601500
Overall
14471482
Coding
15011501
Math
14431443
Hard prompts
14671467
Instruction following
14401440
Multi-turn
14541454
Creative writing
14061406
Longer query
14541454
Chinese
14751475
English
14591459
Vision
cc-minimax-m3qwen3.8-max
122012601300
Overall
12431301
OCR
12561256
Diagram
12671267
Homework
12631263
WebDev Arena
cc-minimax-m3qwen3.8-max
1420150015801660
Overall
15011672
React
15031503
HTML
14551455
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
CC MiniMax M3
$7.50 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: CC MiniMax M3, Qwen3.8 Max?
CC MiniMax M3: $0.1/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
CC MiniMax M3: 2.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
CC MiniMax M3 accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 524,288 tokens on CC MiniMax M3 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.
Which one generates tokens faster?
CC MiniMax M3 at 54.8 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
CC MiniMax M3 accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call CC MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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