MiniMax · Multimodal contender

Host MiniMax M3

A native multimodal, million-context coding and cowork agent built around MiniMax Sparse Attention.

Customize workload
Parameters
427B
Context
1,048,576 tokens
Baseline
640GB VRAM
Quantization
MXFP8 / MXFP4 inference

Current hosting recommendations

Default interactive workload, 8K context, one concurrent request, always on.

36 qualifying tracked rows
Lowest cost

More evidence needed

MiniMax M3 needs at least 8 co-located GPUs plus a verified interconnect. Per-GPU price rows do not prove that topology is available.

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Production

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MiniMax M3 needs at least 8 co-located GPUs plus a verified interconnect. Per-GPU price rows do not prove that topology is available.

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Planning floor

A planning floor derived from catalog VRAM, quantization, context, concurrency, and traffic headroom; benchmark the final runtime before purchase.

Total VRAM
640GB
Per GPU
80GB
GPU count
8

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Change traffic and uptimeRecalculate cost and headroom for your workload. MiniMax M3 on RunPodInspect provider-specific qualifying rows. Compare other modelsReview quality, memory, and hosting envelopes.

Hand this runbook to Claude Code or Codex

Open a terminal in the repository where you want the deployment files, start claude or codex, then paste this prompt. It asks the agent to verify sources and stop before it creates billable infrastructure.

Deployment prompt
Use the infrastructure or model context on this page to create a reproducible open-model deployment. Use this guide as the starting context: https://www.getflops.ai/llms/minimax-m3. Read the linked model card and provider documentation before choosing hardware or runtime settings. Open every linked primary source and flag any mismatch instead of guessing. Create a deployment folder containing README.md, .env.example with no secrets, a pinned start script or infrastructure manifest, and smoke-test.sh. Make the endpoint OpenAI-compatible where the runtime supports it. Run local/static validation, estimate the billable resources, and stop before provisioning paid infrastructure until I approve.
Guardrails included No secrets in files · verify primary docs · approval before spend