The Space Bunny ecosystem
Space Bunny Alpha is a large language model that debuted on OpenRouter on 2026-09-23 as a stealth listing and has since graduated to its named, paid id minimax/minimax-m3. It ships a 1M-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, and unusually strong coding. This page explains where the model lives and every way you can actually use it.
Where Space Bunny lives
Space Bunny Alpha debuted as a stealth preview on OpenRouter — a model released without the provider being named, so a lab can gather real-world feedback before an official launch. Community reverse-engineering (tokenizer behaviour, response fingerprints, and release timing) identified it as MiniMax M3. That stealth listing has since ended, and the model is now served under MiniMax's named id minimax/minimax-m3 — matching the community identification.
The model has graduated from its stealth preview to a paid OpenRouter listing (MiniMax M3), so it is no longer free there. The access routes below are designed to keep working even as the OpenRouter id moves — our hosted model name stays stable.
Ways to use it
There are several paths to the same model. Pick whichever fits your workflow — no single one is required.
Hosted API key
Space Bunny runs on a prepaid API key now — top up from $5 and call it from any OpenAI-compatible SDK. The quickest way to start building on the model.
spacebunnymodel.comOur hosted API
An OpenAI-compatible endpoint we host for you. Base URL https://spacebunnymodel.com/api/v1 with an sb_live_ key. Works with any OpenAI SDK and needs no OpenRouter account of your own.
/api/v1OpenRouter directly
If you already have an OpenRouter account, call the model straight from there as the paid MiniMax M3 listing. You manage your own billing and rate limits.
minimax/minimax-m3opencode
Wire Space Bunny into the opencode terminal agent for coding tasks. See our step-by-step guide for the exact config.
opencode + Space BunnyAny OpenAI SDK
Point the official OpenAI SDK (Python, Node, or anything OpenAI-compatible) at our endpoint and change nothing else. Drop-in usage in your existing code.
baseURL → /api/v1How it compares
Space Bunny arrives in a busy moment: it is one of several fast, long-context models emerging right now. People often line it up against other OpenRouter stealth releases and recent models such as MiniMax, MiMo, GLM, and DeepSeek — all capable, all evolving quickly. Each has its own trade-offs in speed, context length, pricing, and coding strength, and the right pick depends on your task.
Our angle is simple: convenient, low-friction access. We are not trying to declare a winner. We give you the shortest path to building on Space Bunny — a drop-in, prepaid OpenAI-compatible API — so you can judge it against whatever you already use, on your own workload.
Build on Space Bunny with an API key →
Community resources: awesome-space-bunny — a curated list of guides, code examples, opencode setups and integrations for the Space Bunny model.