What are the hardware requirements for MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3 requires approximately 593.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniMax M3 and how large is it?

MiniMax M3 is developed by unsloth, a model with 427b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does MiniMax M3 perform on standard benchmarks?

MiniMax M3 has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1441. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

MiniMax M3 by unsloth — VRAM 593.6GB

Name: MiniMax M3
Author: unsloth

MiniMax M3 is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 427b LLM, VRAM: 593.6GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.4, ELO: 1441.

Agent Base model:finetune:minimaxai/... Base model:minimaxai/minimax-m... Coding Conversational Custom code Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Minimax m3 vl Moe Multimodal Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Video

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M3

MiniMax M3 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1441 vs 1272 (so35) 13.3%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

MiniMax M3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniMax M3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M3
Base Model(s)	MiniMax M3 MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3
Model Size	427b
Required VRAM	593.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	minimax_m3_vl
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Model Architecture	MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to MiniMax M3

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
MiniMax M3	0K / 566.4 GB	161081	1443
MiniMax M3 Uncensored	0K / 580 GB	884	22

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/MiniMax-M3.