Motif 3
Motif 3 is a large-scale, decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 314 billion total parameters and 13.2 billion parameters activated per token.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.50per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K262K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.50per million tokens
- Output
- $2.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.875pricier than 52% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.00 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $22.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $225.00 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Motif 3 yet.
The details
- Lab
- Motif Technologies
- Released
- Aug 7, 2026
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights · MIT
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
About Motif 3
How much does Motif 3 cost?
Motif 3 costs $0.50 input / $2.00 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.875 per million tokens, more expensive than 52% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Motif 3?
Motif 3 accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 262,144 tokens in one response.
How good is Motif 3?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Motif 3 yet.
Is Motif 3 open source?
Yes. Motif Technologies publishes the weights under the MIT licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Motif 3 support?
Motif 3 accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Motif 3 released?
Motif Technologies released Motif 3 on Aug 7, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Motif 3?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Seed 2.1 Turbo (ByteDance Seed, $0.445 / $2.23), Nex-N2-Pro (Nex AGI, $0.50 / $2.50), Hy4 preview (Tencent, $0.834 / $2.50) and Ornith 1.5 35B A3B (DeepReinforce, $0.20 / $1.70).