for a cheaper option, MiniMax M3 runs $0.300/M vs $0.600/M; for more speed, Morph V3 Large hits 3.6k t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is GLM 5.2.
Yes — MiniMax M3 costs $0.300 per million input tokens versus $0.600 for Palmyra X5, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
GLM 5.2 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Palmyra X5 — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 51.1 on intelligence.