MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Bunny was an earlier version, $0.15/$0.60 flat pricing
MiniMax_AI · x · 2026-10-19
MiniMax's official account reveals that Space Bunny — which topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens — was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash. The model claims frontier-level performance on Cowork (Automation-Bench 62%, ALE 30%), coding (DeepSWE 74%), and visual reasoning (BabyVision 91%) at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed. Flat API pricing: $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, $0.015 cache reads; weights arrive Oct 23. Attached charts show it on the cost-performance frontier at $0.03 per task, ahead of Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6, Kimi K3, and GLM-5.3.
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