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MiniMax M3 alternatives for the EU.

MiniMax M3 by MiniMax is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.

Available in EUUpdated

At a glance

MiniMax M3 compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
MiniMax M3 (this)Available in EUOpen sourceNo2 Jun 20264
Inkling SmallAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo27 Jul 20262
LongCat 2.5Available in EUOpen sourceNo4 Nov 20262
Qwen 3.8 MaxAvailable in EUOpen sourceNon/a8
Ling-3.1-flashAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
Ornith 1.5Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
LongCat 2.0Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
MiniCPM-V 4.6Available in EUOpen sourceNo13 Apr 20261
GLM 5.3Available in EUOpen sourceNoAug 20268

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01IS

    Inkling Small

    Model · Thinking Machines

    Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.

    By Thinking Machines. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source27 Jul 202613:37
  2. 02L2

    LongCat 2.5

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter multimodal MoE model (48B active) for agentic coding and visual tasks.

    By Meituan. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source4 Nov 20269:58
  3. 03Q3

    Qwen 3.8 Max

    Model · Alibaba

    Alibaba's open-weights 2.4T-parameter MoE language model (95B active) from the Qwen3.8 family, with a hosted Max version.

    By Alibaba. 8 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source30:12
  4. 04LI

    Ling-3.1-flash

    Model · inclusionAI

    Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.

    By inclusionAI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Oct 202637:10
  5. 05O1

    Ornith 1.5

    Model

    Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop for reasoning, coding and agentic tasks.

    Available in EUOpen source7:27
  6. 06L2

    LongCat 2.0

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.

    By Meituan. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source2:33
  7. 07M4

    MiniCPM-V 4.6

    Model · OpenBMB

    Small open-weights multimodal model from OpenBMB for image and video understanding on phones and edge devices.

    By OpenBMB. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Apr 202616:39
  8. 08G5

    GLM 5.3

    Model · Z.ai

    Z.ai's open-weights 753B MoE language model, a post-trained GLM-5.2 aimed at coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.

    By Z.ai. 8 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen sourceAug 20260:58

Frequently asked

Is MiniMax M3 available in the EU?
MiniMax M3 is available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face with no EU exclusion visible in the provided model card; the custom "minimax-community" license text was not reviewed here. Hosted API and MiniMax Code availability for the EU was not verified.
What is the best alternative to MiniMax M3 in the EU?
Inkling Small by Thinking Machines is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.
How are these alternatives chosen?
We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.

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