Been running a Vue 3 + Spring Boot monorepo through various AI coding setups and wanted to share what actually happened when I tried pointing Cline and Cursor at MiniMax M2.5 via its OpenAI compatible endpoint. Setup (took under 2 minutes per tool): In Cline, just add a custom provider with base URL https://api.minimax.io/v1 and your API key. In Cursor, paste the same into the OpenAI API Key settings and add MiniMax-M2.5 as a custom model. That’s it. No wrapper, no proxy. What worked: Multi file TypeScript refactors came back solid. Instruction following on “change X but don’t touch Y” was noticeably better than what I was getting from Sonnet on Cline. Cost dropped from roughly $18/day (Opus via API) to under $3/day for similar volume. What didn’t: Tool calling in agentic loops still feels a half step behind Claude. It occasionally emits malformed function calls that Cline has to retry. Also, first token latency (~3s) is sluggish compared to Sonnet. Claude Code itself? Still locked to Anthropic models. No dice there. Worth trying if your API bill is getting painful and you’re on Cline or Cursor. submitted by /u/KangarooLow7133
Originally posted by u/KangarooLow7133 on r/ClaudeCode