[throwa356262]

Since I quit my Claude subscription, every month I spend $20 (the cost of CC pro plan) playing around with new models and new providers.

Currently testing M3 for agentic tasks. It works OK and their token plan is very cheap. Highly recommend for claw / hermes type of work.

Tested GLM 5.1 for coding last month and it burned through my tokens a bit too quickly, but it worked well enough.

[LUmBULtERA]

I've been testing M3 for agentic tasks on Hermes and it just gets way too confused. I have really poor result from it compared to GPT-5.4 mini/regular or GLM-5.2 (and even 5.1).

[stevenhubertron]

This has been my experience as well to the letter.

[ricardobeat]

M3 works best as a 'worker' agent. Create plans with a smarter model (Opus, K2.7, DeepSeek Pro) then use Minimax to execute.