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MiniMax Music 3

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Description

MiniMax Music 3 is an open music model from MiniMax that creates a full song with vocals from lyrics and a style description. Per the model card, a track can run up to 5 minutes; lyrics can carry structure labels such as [Verse] and [Chorus]. The output is stereo WAV, 32 kHz, 16-bit. Inside are language models of 8B and 0.6B parameters and a 2.4B flow-matching model. The card lists limits: CUDA only, no streaming mode, and a prompt limit of 5000 tokens. The weights are public on Hugging Face without any acceptance step and released on 2026-08-07. The license is the MiniMax-Music3 Community License (the license file in the model repository). Per the license text, a commercial product or service must prominently display "MiniMax-Music3" in its interface, and if yearly revenue from such products exceeds 20 million US dollars, prior written permission from MiniMax is needed; services for third parties must have safeguards against outputs that violate the license, and an Acceptable Use Policy is attached. The text has no territorial restrictions and no direct clause on rights to outputs. The authors offer an official demo Space on Hugging Face and a demo page with examples. The same developer's video model is in our catalog: MiniMax H3. Date of check: 2026-10-18.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Full song with vocals up to 5 minutes, per the model card
  • Structure labels in lyrics: [Verse], [Chorus] and others
  • Stereo WAV, 32 kHz, 16-bit
  • Weights open without an acceptance step
  • Official Space and demo page

Cons

  • Per the license text, a commercial product must display "MiniMax-Music3" in its interface
  • Per the license text, yearly revenue above 20 million US dollars needs permission from MiniMax
  • CUDA only, no streaming mode, prompt limit of 5000 tokens
  • About 24 GB of VRAM at full precision; 8 GB only in a slower mode

Key facts

License
MiniMax-Music3 Community License
Commercial use
Allowed with restrictions
Hardware requirements
Per the model card: within 24 GB of VRAM at full precision, about 22 GB with automatic CPU offload, and 8 GB with layer-by-layer loading of the language model (slower); CUDA only
Developer
MiniMax
Interface languages
English
Checked on
Oct 18, 2026

Editorial score

How strongly the AI Expertise editors recommend this open model for each of its tasks right now, on a 0–10 scale. The score combines output quality, capabilities, ease of launch, license openness and freshness.

Music

7.5 / 10
Output quality 8.5
Low High
Features 8.5
Basic Rich
Ease of launch 6.0
Hard Easy
License openness 5.0
Restricted Open
Freshness 10.0
Outdated Fresh