MiniMax M3.1 Flash debuts at 1/3 the cost of M3 with 3x speed, weights land Oct 23
MagicZhang · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit post shares MiniMax's official announcement of M3.1 Flash, claiming frontier-level intelligence at one-third the cost of M3 and 3x the speed, scoring 62% on Automation-Bench (Cowork), 74% on DeepSWE coding, and 91% on visual reasoning. Flat API pricing is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens with $0.015 cache reads; model weights open on Oct 23.
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