MiniMax-M3
Hugging Face (MiniMaxAI) Open weights
The catch: Not a plain open licence: commercial use needs a 'Built with MiniMax M3' credit plus a notice to MiniMax (written approval above US$20M yearly revenue), and military use is prohibited.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. ~428 B total / ~23 B active (MoE), needs multi-GPU. Licence conditions: commercial use requires showing 'Built with MiniMax M3' and emailing MiniMax a one-time notice; above US$20M yearly revenue you need prior written authorisation. |
| Modality | text, code, image, video |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | MiniMax Community License |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Model id | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use MiniMax-M3
Download the weights and serve them yourself. Licence: MiniMax Community License.
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "MiniMax-M3" (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Not a plain open licence: commercial use needs a 'Built with MiniMax M3' credit plus a notice to MiniMax (written approval above US$20M yearly revenue), and military use is prohibited.
- MiniMax Community License (LICENSE in the HF repo): base grant is for non-commercial purposes; clause 2 allows Commercial Use if you prominently display "Built with MiniMax M3" (site, UI, blog, about page or docs) and…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is MiniMax-M3 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · MiniMax Community License. No credit card is needed.
Can I use MiniMax-M3 commercially?
Yes, under MiniMax Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with MiniMax-M3?
Download the weights and serve them yourself. Licence: MiniMax Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3/blob/main/LICENSE, checked 2 Oct 2026.