LongCat 2.0 vs MiniMax-M3
Prices checked
LongCat 2.0 and MiniMax-M3 split the 5 rounds this table counts: the maker's two prices, the cheapest price, the maker's blended price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
LongCat 2.0
1M context · tool calling · open weights
$0.52/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · $0.25 per 1,000 pages
MiniMaxMiniMax-M3
1M context · tool calling · reads images · open weights
$0.38/M tokensCheapest price, at Vultr Serverless Inference · $0.17 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.30/M
$0.30/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$1.20/M
$1.20/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
none below the maker
$0.38/M at Vultr Serverless Inference
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.52/M
$0.52/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.25
$0.17
Context
1M tokens
1M tokens
Open weights
yes
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
no
no
Reads images
no
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
20 Jul 2026
1 Jun 2026
Providers selling it
10
67
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
not published
Providers selling both · 9
Nous Portal$0.53 / $0.41
Atlas Cloud$0.53 / $0.53
OpenCode Go$0.53 / $0.53
OpenRouter$0.53 / $0.53
NanoGPT$1.31 / $0.41
TrustedRouter$1.39 / $0.44
SiliconFlow$1.30 / $0.53
Kilo Gateway$1.31 / $0.53
LongCat 2.0, then MiniMax-M3, per million tokens; the 8 cheapest of 9.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
Eden AI · 0.3% cheaper · $0.49 / $2.47 $0.50 / $2.48
MiniMax (China) · 5% dearer · $0.31 / $1.25 $0.30 / $1.20- NanoGPT · 21% cheaper · $0.23 / $0.96 $0.30 / $1.20
- NanoGPT · 21% cheaper · $0.23 / $0.96 $0.30 / $1.20
IteraCompute · 0.8% dearer · $0.30 / $1.19 $0.29 / $1.20
LLM Gateway · 8% cheaper · $0.28 / $1.10 $0.30 / $1.20
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, LongCat 2.0 or MiniMax-M3?
- MiniMax-M3, at $0.38 per million tokens against $0.52 for LongCat 2.0, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 21 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- LongCat 2.0: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.52 is the number to beat. MiniMax-M3: $0.38 at Vultr Serverless Inference.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 9 providers sell both: Nous Portal, Atlas Cloud, OpenCode Go, OpenRouter, NanoGPT, TrustedRouter, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Nous Portal.
- Which holds more context?
- LongCat 2.0, at 1M tokens against 1M.
Prices exclude tax, read 21 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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