MiniMax M3 vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Free)

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks. Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.

The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction-tuned generative model with 70B parameters. Optimized for multilingual dialogue, it outperforms many open-source and closed chat models on industry benchmarks. Supported languages include English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai.