As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M3 is 57% cheaper per million tokens than Seed 2.0 Pro. MiniMax M3 is $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens versus Seed 2.0 Pro at $0.50 / $3.00. Source: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Source: AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
MiniMax M3
MiniMax
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Seed 2.0 Pro
ByteDance
Input
$0.50
Output
$3.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
MiniMax M3Seed 2.0 ProVerdict
MiniMax M3 offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 20, 2026, MiniMax M3 is 57% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens ($1.50 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Seed 2.0 Pro costs $0.50 / $3.00 per million tokens ($3.50 blended). Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
MiniMax M3 MiniMax API pricing is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens via MiniMax. Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance API pricing is $0.50 input and $3.00 output per million tokens via ByteDance. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
MiniMax M3 leads on SWE-bench Verified: MiniMax M3 at 80.5% vs Seed 2.0 Pro at 76.5%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
MiniMax M3 supports a 1M token context window, while Seed 2.0 Pro supports 256K tokens. MiniMax M3 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
MiniMax M3 leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks versus Seed 2.0 Pro's 1 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both MiniMax M3 and Seed 2.0 Pro are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, MiniMax M3 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call MiniMax M3 through MiniMax and Seed 2.0 Pro through ByteDance with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published MiniMax API pricing and ByteDance API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
MiniMax M3 supports up to 131K output tokens per request, while Seed 2.0 Pro supports up to 66K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Seed 2.0 Pro has a measured throughput of approximately 5.593776158213053 tokens/second. Throughput data for MiniMax M3 is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open MiniMax M3 or Seed 2.0 Pro from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. MiniMax M3 costs $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output. Seed 2.0 Pro costs $0.50/M input and $3.00/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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