MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

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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.

About

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

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

Platforms Supported

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

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

Audience

Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

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 Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

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

Pricing

$0.15/1M input tokens
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

Cons

  • The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial tasks.

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

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

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Categories

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Foundation Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Integrations

APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
BLACKBOX AI Supported
Claude Code Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Cline Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
MiniMax Mavis Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Roo Code Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
Vision Agents Supported

Integrations

APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
BLACKBOX AI Supported
Claude Code Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Cline Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
MiniMax Mavis Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Roo Code Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
Vision Agents Supported
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