MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash: frontier agentic intelligence at 1/3 cost and 3x speed
MiniMax_AI · x · 2026-10-19
MiniMax officially released MiniMax M3.1 Flash, claiming frontier-level intelligence on agentic tasks — Cowork (Automation-Bench 62%, ALE 30%), coding (DeepSWE 74%) and visual reasoning (BabyVision 91%) — at 1/3 the cost and 3x the speed of M3.
- Flat API pricing: $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, cache reads at $0.015/1M
- Space Bunny, which topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens, was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash
- Open weights due Oct 23
The team also demoed a toy where coding models plus M3.1 Flash generate game cinematics as you play — every scene written, voiced and filmed on the fly.
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