MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash at 1/3 the cost and 3x the speed of M3, weights out Oct 23
MiniMax_AI · x · 2026-10-22
MiniMax officially released M3.1 Flash, claiming frontier-level agentic intelligence at 1/3 the cost and 3x the speed of M3.
- Reported scores: Automation-Bench 62%, ALE 30% (Cowork), DeepSWE 74% (coding), BabyVision 91% (visual reasoning)
- Flat API pricing: $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, cache reads at $0.015/1M
- The company says Space Bunny — which topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens — was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash
- Open weights arrive Oct 23, alongside an M Plan and the MiniMax Code desktop app
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