Minimax M3 is a really good model and its better than deepseek V4 flash, qwen (under 400b) and have really surprisingly good coding ability. But sometimes output is inconsistent.

Posted by 9r4n4y@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 13 comments

[I am most likely assuming it's under 500B due to pricing]

For those who don't know, yeah, Minimax M3 is out. If you don't have good hardware, you can try it online on Minimax Agent Chat.

So whenever a new model comes out, I test 2 main things:

🔻1. Web search - it outperforms DeepSeek V4 Flash in web searches as it pulls off better results and finds niche stuff.

It also beats Gemini 3.5 Flash for web search. Like, idk why Gemini can't find some niche info properly from the web (I think it only reads snippets, that's why maybe).

It also outperforms Qwen 3.5 122B and Qwen 27B in web searches.

🔻2. (Only frontend) My personal standalone HTML test (this includes some games, webpages, and some SVG stuff)

Ngl, I was totally shocked that M3 was able to do some of my harder HTML tasks. It was sometimes beating Sonnet 4.6, but I think it's most likely not better than Sonnet 4.6. I would say it can do 90% of the stuff.

It outperforms DeepSeek V4 Pro in coding stuff (frontend only).

It also outperforms all Qwen models from all the latest series under 400B.

I would say it would be totally banger if it's under 300B parameters.

🔻 Now the cons - the only problem with Minimax is that sometimes it gives very good output and sometimes totally shit output, but only for coding tasks.

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