# Kilo Code AI says MiniMax M3 matched Claude Opus 4.8 on a code audit for $0.07

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07>
> Published: 2026-06-06 19:06:35+00:00

Kilo Code AI (@kilocode), the open source AI coding assistant company founded by Scott Breitenother and Sytse Sijbrandij, said Saturday in a nine post thread on X that MiniMax M3 matched Anthropic's cheapest Claude Opus 4.8 run on a code audit test at a fraction of the cost, finding 13 of 17 planted bugs for $0.07. The company provides an AI coding agent that runs inside development environments including Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. Its platform can generate code from natural langu...