{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-music-3/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-music-3/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"minimax-music-3","name":"MiniMax Music 3.0","org":"MiniMax","family":"MiniMax Music","released":"2026-07-16","status":"current","type":"music","modality_in":["text"],"modality_out":["audio"],"open_weights":true,"model_license":"MiniMax-Music3 Community License (commercial use allowed with 'MiniMax-Music3' shown in the UI; separate authorization above US$20M annual revenue)","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_song":0.15,"unit":"USD per generation of up to 5 minutes (music-3.0 and music-2.6 API). Paid music APIs closed to NEW users from 2026-08-20; existing paying users keep access.","source":"https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo"},"price_line":"$0.15 per song","access":[{"provider":"MiniMax API (existing paying users only since 2026-08-20)","model_id":"music-3.0","docs":"https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/music-generation"},{"provider":"Hugging Face","url":"https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3"},{"provider":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-Music3"},{"provider":"Web app (MiniMax Audio)","url":"https://www.minimax.io/audio"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Open-weights full songs up to ~5 minutes in one pass","detail":"Composes, arranges, performs and produces a complete song (vocals + arrangement) up to about five minutes from lyrics with section tags and a structured caption; 32 kHz 16-bit stereo WAV.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model"},{"name":"Hierarchical Global/Local LLM with continuous hidden-state synthesis","detail":"8B Global LLM (initialized from Qwen3.5-8B) for long-range structure + 0.6B Local LLM for frame-level acoustics, rendered by a 2.4B flow-matching module and 123M Flow-VAE instead of discrete token decoding.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model"},{"name":"Consumer-GPU inference","detail":"24 GB+ VRAM recommended; runs on 8 GB with CPU offloading; diffusers modular pipeline and ComfyUI support (Comfy-Org/MiniMax-Music-3).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3"}],"entry":"2026-08-13-minimax-music-3-open-weights","notes":"music-3.0 shipped on the MiniMax API on 2026-07-16 (release notes); open weights published 2026-08-13. Earlier API models: music-2.6 (Apr 2026, covers), music-cover, music-2.5 (Jan 2026), music-2.0 (legacy). On 2026-08-20 MiniMax stopped offering the paid Music and Lyrics Generation APIs to new users and points them to MiniMax Audio or the open model. Demonstrated with English and Mandarin lyrics; no third-party benchmark vs Suno found.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"MiniMax's flagship music model, now the strongest-known open-weights song generator from a major lab. Run locally from Hugging Face (`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3`) or use the MiniMax Audio web app.\n\nSources: [blog](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model), [HF model card](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3), [license](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3/blob/main/LICENSE), [models intro](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro), [release notes](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models), [pricing](https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo).","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-music-3/","standing":{"kind":"music generation","newer_count":4,"newer":[{"id":"elevenlabs-music-v2-5","name":"Eleven Music v2.5","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2026-09-11","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-music-v2-5/"},{"id":"suno-v6","name":"Suno v6 (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini)","org":"Suno","released":"2026-09-09","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/suno-v6/"},{"id":"yue2","name":"YuE2-3B","org":"Multimodal Art Projection (M-A-P)","released":"2026-09-09","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/yue2/"},{"id":"lyria-3-5","name":"Lyria 3.5","org":"Google DeepMind","released":"2026-07-29","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/lyria-3-5/"}],"before":null,"after":null,"weights":"public","licence":"MiniMax-Music3 Community License (commercial use allowed with 'MiniMax-Music3' shown in the UI; separate authorization above US$20M annual revenue)","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Weights are public. Licence: MiniMax-Music3 Community License. See the licence for commercial terms."}}