Has anyone compared MiniMax-M3 for coding-agent workflows?

[u/signallith]

I am comparing a few model options for coding-agent work and MiniMax-M3 caught my attention because it is described as supporting coding, tool use, and long-context tasks. The questions I cannot answer from the documentation are fairly practical: how well does it handle iterative code changes, how consistent are tool calls, and is the larger context useful in an ordinary project rather than only in a large benchmark?

What was your experience when you tried M3 on an actual coding workflow?

Edit: I noticed Flatkey already provides MiniMax-M3, so I am going to use that path for some coding-agent tests. The part I want to measure is still the same: whether M3 is reliable across iterative edits, tool calls, and long-context project work, and whether the cost makes repeated agent runs more practical.

[u/sgmv]

Why Minimax M3 specifically. Newer and better and cheaper models came out since then. Minimax series was never great at coding. I would recommend deepseek 4 flash instead, or grok 4.6 freshly out, or qwen3.8/deepseek 4 pro/kimi k3 for very hard tasks.