Side-by-side comparison of MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMax AI · China) and Step-3.7-Flash (StepFun) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. MiniMax-M2.7 is rated blocked; Step-3.7-Flash is conditional. They part ways on licence: MiniMax-M2.7 is "MiniMax Non-Commercial License", Step-3.7-Flash is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Blocked Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps. | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the Step-3.7-Flash weights ship without commercial restriction — a 198B / 11B-active vision-language MoE with a 256k-token context aimed at tool-heavy and agentic workflows. The remaining EU-readiness gaps are the entirely undisclosed training corpus and StepFun's Shanghai-based vendor jurisdiction; deploy on self-managed EU infrastructure and document the Art. 50 transparency story for any synthetic or biometric output. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MiniMax Non-Commercial License | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Non-commercial only | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China (Shanghai) | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 50/100 | — |
| Speed | 46 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.53/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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