MiniMax-01 vs Relace Apply 3
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- MiniMax-01 is 2.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- MiniMax-01 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 256K tokens.
- Relace Apply 3 is the newer model (released 2025-09-26).
| MiniMax-01 | Relace Apply 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | MiniMax | Relace |
| Released | 2025-01-15 | 2025-09-26 |
| Input / 1M | $0.20 | $0.85 |
| Output / 1M | $1.10 | $1.25 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.425 | $0.95 |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Max output | 900K | 128K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $1.10 | $1.25 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
MiniMax-01
$28.50 per month$0.95 per day
Relace Apply 3
$69.75 per month$2.33 per day
MiniMax-01 saves $41.25 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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