Based on weekly OpenRouter usage tracked by AI Tier List, MiniMax: MiniMax M3 ranks #4 overall — ahead of Poolside: Laguna M.1 at #18. Poolside: Laguna M.1 is cheaper on input tokens at $0.20/1M vs $0.30/1M for MiniMax: MiniMax M3. MiniMax: MiniMax M3 offers the larger context window at 1M tokens.
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | Poolside: Laguna M.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | minimax | poolside |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.30 | $0.20 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.20 | $0.40 |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Input modalities | text, image, video | text |
| Output modalities | text | text |
| AA Intelligence | 44.4 | — |
| AA Coding | — | — |
| AA Agentic | 35.4 | — |
| Released | May 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Task | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | Poolside: Laguna M.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #4 | #18 |
| Memory Extraction | #3 | — |
| Multi-step Planning | #2 | — |
| Tool Dispatch | #2 | — |
| Web Search | #3 | — |
| Agent Workflows | #1 | — |
Usage ranks are weekly data aggregated by OpenRouter. Prices are USD per 1M tokens.
| Classification & Tagging | #4 | — |
| Debugging | #2 | — |
| DevOps Config | #2 | — |
| File Read/Write | #2 | — |
| Frontend UI | #2 | — |
| Code Implementation | #2 | — |
| Repo Analysis | #2 | — |
| Code Review & Security | #1 | — |
| Shell Execution | #2 | — |
