MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on Vercel AI Gateway via GMI Cloud through September 6. Access them using the model IDs minimax/minimax-m3-free and minimax/minimax-m2.7-free. Those IDs stop working when the free period ends.
To avoid broken requests after September 6, swap to the standard model ID without the -free suffix and set GMI Cloud first in provider order. AI Gateway will attempt GMI Cloud first and fall back to another provider if it cannot serve the request. Requests outside the free GMI Cloud route bill at the serving provider's rate.
The routing logic is worth reading in full: the same code can survive the transition from free to paid without modification, which is the practical reason to care about provider ordering in AI Gateway. Coding agent users can route through these models today by running vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup and selecting a -free model ID.
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