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minimax-music3 is an open-weight audio or speech model from ChrisColeTech, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
MiniMax Music 3 GGUF The MiniMax Music 3 autoregressive text encoder + flow-matching DiT, converted to GGUF. Complete songs with vocals from a caption (music description) + lyrics. Up to ~5 min, stereo 44.1 kHz. Samples Synth-Pop - 2:29 min (Q80 GGUF) - ~7.3 min on an RTX 5090 (32 GB), peak 9.7 GiB. Punk-funk — 1:01 (Q80 GGUF) - ~5 min on an RTX 5090 (32 GB), peak 9.7 GiB. Components used to generate ⚠ Must use the updated GGUF Loader ⚠ In comfy: - Open the ComfyUI Manager - Change the channel to "Channel (remote)" - and search for comfyui-gguf-loader Use the workflow Link Caption in three parts: - global metadata (genre, BPM, key, mood) - vocal details - arrangement. Note: Describe the vocal explicitly (ie. "warm female vocal, close and breathy" etc.) or it drifts. Structure tags each on their own line: [intro] [verse] [pre-chorus] [chorus] [bridge] [instrumental] [solo] [outro]. Note: These are the only tags the model uses. Recommended settings Sources
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | ChrisColeTech |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | gguf |
| Based on | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3 |
| Released | 2026-08-14 |
| Popularity | 5k downloads / month |
| Likes | 11 |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| minimax-music3-GGUF | — | GGUF | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys chriscoletech-minimax-music3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (chriscoletech-minimax-music3 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \ -F model="chriscoletech-minimax-music3" -F file=@audio.mp3
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Licence
The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗