MiniMax M3.1 Flash beats Claude Opus 5.5 on agentic automation at ~27x lower cost
togethercompute · x · 2026-10-27
Together AI shared Artificial Analysis data: MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores 72.5% on AutomationBench-AA, beating Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 69.5%) and GPT-6 Astra (max, 68.5%) — at an average cost of just $0.22 per task vs $5.98 for Opus, roughly 27x cheaper (15–35x vs the three closed models).
The model offers a 1M context window and vision, targeting coding, computer use, and cybersecurity workloads. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (66.6%) and Grok 4.7 (65.6%) follow.
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