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Monthly cost by workload
Workload
Grok 4.7
MiniMax-M3
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day
$1,500/mo
$270.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day
$2,850/mo
$450.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input
$1,560/mo
$234.00/mo
Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.
Context and capabilities
Grok 4.7
MiniMax-M3
Context
500,000 tokens
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
500,000 tokens
512,000 tokens
Input
text, image, pdf
text, image, video
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes
Structured outputs
Yes
No
Questions
What is the price difference between Grok 4.7 and MiniMax-M3?
Grok 4.7: $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens. MiniMax-M3: $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens. For the Chatbot workload (1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day), that is about $1,500 per month for Grok 4.7 and $270.00 for MiniMax-M3.
Which has the longer context window, Grok 4.7 or MiniMax-M3?
MiniMax-M3 has the longer context window: up to 1,000,000 tokens, compared with 500,000 for Grok 4.7.
Do Grok 4.7 and MiniMax-M3 have prompt caching and batch prices?
Grok 4.7: cached input $0.50 per 1M tokens; no batch price published. MiniMax-M3: cached input $0.06 per 1M tokens; no batch price published.