Minimax M3 (Fully Tested) + FULLY FREE API: This is ACTUALLY GOOD!
Visit Verdent: https://www.verdent.ai/?id=700712 In this video, I'll be telling you about MiniMax M3, a new coding and agentic frontier model with one million context, native multimodality, tool support, and free access inside OpenCode right now. I also test it across several coding, UI, Three.js, simulation, SVG, math, and agentic workflow tasks to see how well it actually performs. -- Key Takeaways: 🚀 MiniMax M3 is being marketed as a coding and agentic frontier model with one million context. 🧠 It supports native multimodality, long-context coding, tool usage, autonomous workflows, and multi-step reasoning. 🛠️ MiniMax M3 is designed for coding tools like OpenCode, Claude Code, Roo Code, Kilo Code, Cline, Cursor, and more. 💸 You can currently try MiniMax M3 inside OpenCode for free, which makes it easy to test without API keys or billing. 📊 In my Verdent benchmark tests, MiniMax M3 scored 25 out of 70, or 35.71%. 🎮 It struggled with complex simulations, games, Three.js interactions, and multi-step local agentic workflows. 🐼 It performed better on simpler visual generation tasks, like creating an SVG of a panda eating a burger. ⚖️ MiniMax M3 beat DeepSeek V4 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash in this test set, but stayed behind GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, and Opus 4.8. 👍 Overall, MiniMax M3 is not an Opus replacement yet, but it is still an interesting free coding model worth trying in OpenCode.
