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  5. MiniMax M3vsSonar Pro Search
Updated Jun 2026

MiniMax M3vsSonar Pro Search

MiniMax M3 is cheaper than Sonar Pro Search at $0.3/M vs $3/M input tokens.

MiniMax M3 and Sonar Pro Search compared across 51 shared prompts
SpecMiniMax M3Sonar Pro Search
Input price$0.3/M tokens$3/M tokens
Output price$1.2/M tokens$15/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens200K tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJun 2026Oct 2025
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 51 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

MiniMax M32,257 words
CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Response to Discovered Safety Signal Operating Principles (Before I Make a Move) Before I do anything, I need to be crystal clear about the framework I'm operating in, because under pressure, even good leaders rationalize delay: The 4 million patients are not abstractions.
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Sonar Pro Search778 words
Immediate Priorities Prioritize patient safety by initiating monitoring and reporting preparations, while assessing full data to inform board and regulators. Ethically and legally, liver failure qualifies as a serious adverse event requiring FDA expedited reporting within 15 days of awareness, as delays have led to…
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Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

MiniMax M31,795 words
TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque — A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision — a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush of…
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Sonar Pro Search583 words
Dish: "Terrestrial Echoes – Heirloom Beetroot & Yuzu-Scented Langoustine with Walnut-Feta Spheres and Eggplant-Chocolate Veil" This multi-component dish reimagines earth and sea through an unusual pairing of smoked heirloom beetroot and delicate langoustine, accented by bursting feta-walnut spheres and a whisper-thin…
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

MiniMax M3621 words
"The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.
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Sonar Pro Search392 words
3-Minute Stand-Up Comedy Routine (Pun-Free) Hey everyone, thanks for coming out! I almost didn’t make it tonight. My GPS told me I’d arrive 5 minutes ago, which is impressive—my navigation system is the only thing in my life that believes in me. Let’s talk about fitness.
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

MiniMax M3287 words
🌟 Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots 🌟 A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots – 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter – 3 tablespoons Honey – 2 tablespoons Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Salt – ½ teaspoon Black…
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Sonar Pro Search219 words
Golden Maple Crunch Oatmeal A warm, comforting, and slightly sweet breakfast (or dessert) that’s ready in minutes—using just seven pantry staples. Ingredients Rolled oats (not instant) Water or milk (dairy or plant-based) Maple syrup Butter Salt Cinnamon Walnuts (or any nuts you have) Instructions Toast the Oats: In a…
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

MiniMax M32,628 words
The 1920 Transistor: A Speculative History Through 1980 A Necessary Caveat Before diving in: quantum mechanics didn't exist in 1920. The "holes," band theory, and doping concepts that made the actual transistor possible weren't formulated until 1928-1931 (Bloch, Wilson, Heisenberg).
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Sonar Pro Search412 words
Technological Implications An earlier transistor invention in 1920 would accelerate electronics from vacuum tubes to solid-state devices by the 1930s, enabling smaller, reliable amplifiers and switches decades ahead of 1947.[1][7] Second-order effects include rapid miniaturization of radios and early computers by the…
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

MiniMax M31,434 words
Architectural Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical flaws that would manifest as data loss, poor UX, and a system that breaks down at modest scale. I'll group findings by severity.
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Sonar Pro Search637 words
Race Conditions Client Clock Skew in Conflict Resolution Client-generated timestamps for last-write-wins can fail due to clock skew across devices, where one client's clock lags or leads, causing incorrect overwrite ordering even if changes were logically sequential.[21][27][32] This leads to lost edits…
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Our Verdict
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3
Sonar Pro Search
Sonar Pro SearchRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiniMax M3 has the edge: newer, bigger context window.

MiniMax M3 costs 13x less per token.

Too close to call

Reviewing agent-written code?See a Brief PR report

API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
10× cheaper
Output
$1.20
13× cheaper
Sonar Pro Search
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00

MiniMax M3 is cheaper on both: 10× input, 13× output.

Where to run it

14 hosts, cheapest first

MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·99.7% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.8% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·99.8% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·96.5% upMiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.5% upNNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.6% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
PParasailfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99% upSStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.5% upTTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.7% upMMara$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·80.7% upSSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·96.7% upMModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·99.7% upVVenicefp8degraded$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·89% up
Sonar Pro Search1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Perplexity$3.00 in·$15.00 out·200k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
52%

MiniMax M3 uses 115.0x more emoji

MiniMax M3
Sonar Pro Search
55%Vocabulary60%
24wSentence Length22w
0.52Hedging0.30
5.2Bold2.7
3.0Lists2.6
1.15Emoji0.00
1.21Headings2.08
0.02Transitions0.07
Based on 27 + 25 text responses
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FAQ

Common questions

MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax while Sonar Pro Search is developed by Perplexity. MiniMax M3 has a 1.0M token context window vs Sonar Pro Search's 200K. You can compare their actual outputs across 51 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. MiniMax M3 and Sonar Pro Search each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 51 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens and Sonar Pro Search costs $3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $2.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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