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minimax m3 surges 198% – still priciest in a chinese-dominated top 4

pulse Stone pillars showing AI model prices with towering M3 at $1.20 dwarfing cheaper V4 Flash, Hy3, and Mimo V2.5 models

minimax m3 just grew 198% this week on openrouter – the biggest jump in the top 10

worth noting: they're running a -50% sale. and even at half price it's the priciest of the top 4 (all chinese models):

@deepseek_ai v4 flash – $0.098 / $0.196
@TencentHunyuan hy3 – $0.063 / $0.21
@XiaomiMiMo v2.5 – $0.14 / $0.28
@MiniMax_AI m3 – $0.30 / $1.20 (sale)

cheap pricing is eating the leaderboard

Ranked table of top 10 models by token usage on OpenRouter with MiniMax M3 at rank 3 showing 3.63T tokens and 198% weekly growth

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