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GPT-5.6 Sol vs MiniMax M3

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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GPT-5.6 Sol
openai/gpt-5.6-sol
MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Provider
OpenAI
MiniMax
Family
GPT-5
MiniMax M
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,050,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
4,096 tok
Released
2026-07-10
2026-06-01
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$2.00 /1M
$0.300 /1M
Output price
$10.00 /1M
$1.20 /1M
Tools
yes
—
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
—
JSON mode
yes
—
Reasoning
yes
—
Prompt caching
—
—
Batch API
—
—
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GPT-5.6 Sol
openai/gpt-5.6-sol
Full spec →

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI's frontier GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, using the Responses API for reasoning and stateful context management.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Full spec →

MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
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Grok 4.7 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
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Grok 4.7 vs MiniMax M3
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Glm-5.3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# GPT-5.6 Sol
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-5.6-sol",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# MiniMax M3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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