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

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4. It systematically upgrades attention, residual connections, embeddings, and optimization to improve capability, computational efficiency, model capacity, and training stability. Its hybrid architecture combines Gated DeltaNet, which efficiently compresses historical information, with Qwen Sparse Attention, which selects important context at the micro-block level to reduce attention and indexing costs on long sequences. Gated Residual widens the residual stream into four branches and dynamically controls information flow across layers, while N-gram Embedding adds large-scale local-pattern memory with very little extra per-token computation and can be offloaded to host memory. The model uses a 125B-parameter main network plus 51B N-gram embedding parameters, while activating only 6B parameters per token.

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

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

Developers, researchers, and AI teams seeking to run or study an efficient multimodal open-weight model with long-context reasoning, coding, multilingual, and agentic capabilities

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

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

Pricing

$2 per 1M (input)
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

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

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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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

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

Company Information

Alibaba
Founded: 1999
China
qwen.ai/blog

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Integrations

Cline
ClinePass
Hermes Agent
Ollama
OpenClaw
Alibaba Cloud
Claude Code
Factory Droid
Happy Shrimp 1.0
Hugging Face
MaxHermes
MiniMax Agent
MiniMax Code
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
Qwen
Qwen Code
QwenWork
Vision Agents
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