GLM-5

GLM-5

Z.ai
MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
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About

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s latest large language model built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. It scales significantly beyond GLM-4.5, increasing total parameters and training data while integrating DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce deployment costs without sacrificing long-context capacity. The model combines enhanced pre-training with a new asynchronous reinforcement learning infrastructure called slime, improving training efficiency and post-training refinement. GLM-5 achieves best-in-class performance among open-source models across reasoning, coding, and agent benchmarks, narrowing the gap with leading frontier models. It ranks highly on evaluations such as Vending Bench 2, demonstrating strong long-term planning and operational capabilities. The model is open-sourced under the MIT License.

About

MiniMax M3 is an open-weight multimodal AI model designed for coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and complex automation tasks. The model combines frontier-level coding performance, native multimodal understanding, and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. MiniMax M3 uses MiniMax Sparse Attention to improve long-context efficiency while reducing compute requirements for large-scale inputs. It supports text, image, and video understanding, making it useful for workflows that combine code, documents, visual references, and tool-driven tasks. The model is built for repository-scale reasoning, software engineering, autonomous task execution, tool calling, and multi-step agent workflows. MiniMax M3 helps developers, AI teams, and enterprises build capable agents that can reason across large contexts and work with multimodal information.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

AI researchers, developers, and engineering teams seeking an open-source, high-performance foundation model for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic applications

Audience

MiniMax M3 is best suited for developers, AI engineers, coding assistant builders, enterprise automation teams, research teams, data teams, agent developers, and organizations that need open-weight AI for coding, long-context reasoning, multimodal understanding, tool use, repository analysis, and autonomous workflows

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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ease 4.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The multimodal side also makes it more flexible than a code-only model. Being able to work across text, images, video-style understanding, and code gives it more room to support real workflows instead of being boxed into one narrow use case. For agent builders, the best part is that M3 is clearly designed around tool use and multi-step execution. MiniMax specifically calls out autonomous task decomposition and tool invocation, which is exactly what matters when a model is powering coding assistants, workflow agents, or automated dev tools.

Cons

  • The main catch is infrastructure and trust. Even with sparse attention and MoE efficiency, this is still a large model, so deployment is not casual. I would also want to benchmark it on my own repos before depending on it for production work.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2023
China
z.ai/

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

APIFree
Claude Code
Cline
Kilo Code
Ollama
OpenClaw
Roo Code
Tabbit Browser
Alibaba AI Coding Plan
Claw Code
Clawd.run
Dessix
Factory Droid
Fireworks AI
MiniMax Code
MiniMax Mavis
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Shiori

Integrations

APIFree
Claude Code
Cline
Kilo Code
Ollama
OpenClaw
Roo Code
Tabbit Browser
Alibaba AI Coding Plan
Claw Code
Clawd.run
Dessix
Factory Droid
Fireworks AI
MiniMax Code
MiniMax Mavis
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Shiori
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