Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF vs MiniMax-M3

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

cdiamond · A · Open weights

Params

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Context

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30d

2.4 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

MiniMaxAI · B · Open weights

Params

427.0 B

Context

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30d

203 K

Specification comparison

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Specification	Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF	MiniMax-M3
Deployment	Open weights	Open weights · also via API
Parameters	—	427.0 B
Architecture	—	MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration
Context length	—	524,288
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	—	—
Downloads 30d	2,369,313	203,491
Downloads all time	7.5 M	924 K
Quantizations on the Hub	GGUF	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2026-08-17	2026-06-02
API input price / 1M tokens	not on OpenRouter	$0.30
API output price / 1M tokens	not on OpenRouter	$1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	not on OpenRouter	$1.50
Cached input / 1M tokens	not on OpenRouter	$0.06
AA Intelligence Index	not on OpenRouter	29.2
AA Coding Index	not on OpenRouter	58.6
AA Agentic Index	not on OpenRouter	29.5
Max output tokens	not on OpenRouter	512,000
API providers	not on OpenRouter	12
Tool calling	not on OpenRouter	Yes
Reasoning mode	not on OpenRouter	Yes

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

MiniMax-M3 $1.50

Daily snapshots, last 53 days (2 Sep – 24 Oct)

5.0 M194 K

Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF MiniMax-M3

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

MiniMax-M3 · fp16 1,004.2 GB / 24 GB

❌ Won’t fit