LFM3

LFM3

Liquid AI
MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
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About

LFM3 is Liquid AI’s family of compact, open-weight foundation models for text, vision, audio, and multimodal tasks. The release includes text-generation, vision-language, audio, omni, and decision-model variants. Developers can download the model weights, adapt supported models through fine-tuning, and run them locally on edge hardware or access them through Liquid AI’s hosted API. Use cases include conversational assistants, tool calling, speech transcription and generation, image and video understanding, document extraction, classification, routing, and robotics applications. LFM3 is intended for developers, researchers, and organizations building specialized AI applications that need flexible deployment choices, including local inference. Open-weight models are available under Liquid AI’s LFM Open License; commercial eligibility and terms depend on an organization’s annual revenue.

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 Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers, AI researchers, and organizations building specialized AI applications, including applications using local or edge inference.

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 Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.08/MTok
LFM3-1.7B API usage is $0.08 per million input tokens, $0.02 per million cached input tokens, and $0.20 per million output tokens. New organizations receive $2 in API credit. Open-weight models can be used in production free by developers, researchers, nonprofits, and businesses with less than $10 million in annual revenue; businesses above that threshold require a paid license.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

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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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
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 Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Liquid AI
Founded: 2023
United States
www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm3

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

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Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Categories

Integrations

Ollama Supported
APIFree Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
ClinePass Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Hugging Face Supported
Hugging Face Transformers Supported
LM Studio Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
MiniMax Agent Not Supported
MiniMax Code Not Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Go Not Supported
OpenRouter Supported
OpenTag Not Supported
Pi Agent Not Supported
Roo Code Not Supported
Tabbit Browser Not Supported
Together AI Not Supported
vLLM Supported

Integrations

Ollama Supported
APIFree Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Hugging Face Not Supported
Hugging Face Transformers Not Supported
LM Studio Not Supported
MaxHermes Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
MiniMax Code Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenRouter Not Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Roo Code Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
vLLM Not Supported
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