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Last days of free Hy3 and discounted MiniMax M3

Time to use Hy3 & M3. Developers have used over 1T free tokens on Hy3 using Command Code. We're excited to see what y'all will build in the last few days...

Team Command Code
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Jul 18, 2026

Time to use Hy3 & M3.

Developers have used over 1T free tokens on Hy3 using Command Code. We're excited to see what y'all will build in the last few days this model is free.

After July 21st:

  • Hy3 "free" model going away
  • MiniMax M3 discount goes 62.5% → 50%

What will you ship

MiniMax M3 at a glance

Frontier coding, agents & native multimodality.

SpecMiniMax M3
Model IDminimaxai/minimax-m3
Context window1M tokens
ReleasedJune 1, 2026
Intelligence Index29.2
Coding Index58.6
Input$0.30 per 1M tokens
Output$1.20 per 1M tokens
Cache read$0.06 per 1M tokens
Effective input in an agent loop$0.13 per 1M tokens
PlansGo and above

Specs, pricing and plans are from the MiniMax M3 model page as of September 28, 2026, including any deal running that day, so they can differ from the launch pricing above. Intelligence and Coding Index scores are from Artificial Analysis.

Use MiniMax M3

1cmd --model minimaxai/minimax-m3

Or type /model in a session and pick it. You can switch mid-session without losing context.

What real work costs on MiniMax M3

TaskTokens (in · out)Cost
Quick lookup / one-liner8K · 1K$0.0019
Review a 500-line PR60K · 4K$0.01
Fix a bug (agent loop)180K · 12K$0.04
Refactor a module320K · 20K$0.06
Full-repo agent run900K · 45K$0.16

Try Command Code

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1npm i -g command-code

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