Mercury 3

Mercury 3

Inception
MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
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About

Mercury 3 is a hosted generative AI model from Inception for developers building interactive applications. It uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text in parallel and supports streaming responses, tool use, structured outputs, and multimodal input including text, images, and audio. Through the Inception API, teams can use it for conversational assistants, voice applications, search and browsing workflows, tutoring, and other agentic tasks that benefit from responsive generation. The model is available through Inception’s API and named inference partners, with OpenAI-compatible API access for existing applications. Developers can evaluate output quality and latency, then integrate the model into their software using the documented API and SDK ecosystem. Usage is token-metered, with a free allocation and paid input/output token rates; enterprise options include dedicated capacity and support.

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
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Cloud Supported
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iPad Not Supported
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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 and product or engineering teams building conversational, voice-enabled, multimodal, search, browsing, tutoring, and agentic applications; enterprise teams can request dedicated capacity.

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 Not 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

$0.10/1M input tokens
Launch pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, 50% below standard rates of $0.20 and $0.70. A free allocation of 100 million tokens is available. Usage is token-metered; enterprise deployments offer dedicated capacity and priority support.
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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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

Inception
Founded: 2024
United States
www.inceptionlabs.ai/models

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

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Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
Amazon Bedrock Supported
Baseten Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Clawd.run Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Fireworks AI Not Supported
Kilo Code Not Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
Microsoft Foundry Supported
MiniMax Code Not Supported
MiniMax Mavis Not Supported
OpenAI Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Go Not Supported
OpenRouter Supported
Pi Agent Not Supported
Roo Code Not Supported
Together AI Not Supported
Vision Agents Not Supported

Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Amazon Bedrock Not Supported
Baseten Not Supported
Claude Code Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
Kilo Code Supported
MaxHermes Supported
Microsoft Foundry Not Supported
MiniMax Code Supported
MiniMax Mavis Supported
OpenAI Not Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenRouter Not Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Roo Code Supported
Together AI Supported
Vision Agents Supported
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