MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
SWE-2

SWE-2

Cognition
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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

SWE-2 is Cognition’s advanced coding model designed to improve software engineering performance while reducing the cost of agentic coding workflows. The model is post-trained from Kimi K3 and uses reinforcement learning to optimize multiple reasoning-effort levels within a single training run. SWE-2 is designed to explore codebases more selectively, begin implementation sooner, and complete tasks with fewer redundant reads and reasoning steps than earlier Cognition models. Its capabilities include code generation, debugging, test creation, verification, repository analysis, and complex terminal-based software engineering tasks. The model also emphasizes stronger engineering judgment, end-to-end test coverage, instruction following, and evidence-based verification of user assumptions. SWE-2 is available through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, with broader rollout planned across Devin Web and Fusion.

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

Software developers, engineering teams, AI coding agent users, DevOps professionals, and organizations that need capable agentic software engineering with lower execution cost and more efficient reasoning

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

$20/month
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

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

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 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

  • The biggest thing that stands out is the cost-performance balance. SWE-2 is not just trying to top one benchmark; it is trying to get very close to frontier coding performance at a much lower cost. For developers, that matters a lot. Coding agents can burn through tokens quickly when they are reading files, making edits, running tests, and iterating. A model that performs near the top while being meaningfully cheaper is much easier to use every day. I also like that SWE-2 seems built for real software engineering workflows, not just isolated code snippets. The strong DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench results make it especially interesting for repo-level tasks, debugging, tool use, and longer agent runs.

Cons

  • Benchmarks are useful, but real projects bring messy architecture, flaky tests, undocumented behavior, and weird edge cases.

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

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

.NET
C
ClinePass
Dart
Devin
Go
HTML
JSON
JavaScript
Kilo Code
Kotlin
Lua
MiniMax Mavis
Objective-C
PHP
PowerShell
Python
R
Terraform
Vision Agents

Integrations

.NET
C
ClinePass
Dart
Devin
Go
HTML
JSON
JavaScript
Kilo Code
Kotlin
Lua
MiniMax Mavis
Objective-C
PHP
PowerShell
Python
R
Terraform
Vision Agents
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