MiniMax M3.1 Flash launches at 1/3 cost, 3x speed, ends DeepSeek's 2-day lead
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-19
MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, claiming frontier-level agentic performance (Automation-Bench 62%, ALE 30%, DeepSWE 74%, 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, $0.015 cache reads. Weights arrive Oct 23. Benchmark charts show leads on Automation-Bench and BankerToolBench, though DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 keeps DeepSWE at 77.0 — ending DeepSeek's 2-day OSS lead.
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