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24 alternatives to MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax’s Flash model, 3x faster and 70% cheaper for agents
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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MiniMax M2.5▲194The first open model to beat Sonnet made for productivity
Feb 2026 · minimax.io · its alternatives →
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Step 3.7 Flash▲183Flash-speed agents model that can see and act
May 2026 · static.stepfun.com · its alternatives →
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Build apps, research deeply and automate multi-step tasks
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax M2.7▲378Self-evolving AI model powering autonomous agents
Mar 2026 · agent.minimax.io · its alternatives →
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MiMo-V2-Flash▲241Ultra-fast 309B MoE model for coding & agents
Dec 2025 · mimo.xiaomi.com · its alternatives →
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Powers faster, efficient reasoning for long-running agents
Jun 2026 · developer.nvidia.com · its alternatives →
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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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MiniMax H3▲333MiniMax H3 is a multimodal AI video generator that turns text, images, video clips, and audio into coherent cinematic videos with native stereo sound. It lets you mix up to 12 references in one pass, maintain character and style consistency, and perform precise instruction-based
Jul 2026 · minimax.io · its alternatives →
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FLUX 3 Max▲133fal’s FLUX 3 Max: 10-second AI video in about 12 seconds
8d ago · fal.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm just sharing a project I've been working on during the LLM Efficiency Challenge - you can now finetune Llama with QLoRA 5x faster than Huggingface's original implementation on your own local GPU. Some highlights: 1. Manual autograd engine - hand derived backprop steps. 2. QLoRA / LoRA 80% faster, 50% less memory. 3. All kernels written in OpenAI's Triton language. 4. 0% loss in accuracy - no approximation methods - all exact. 5. No change of hardware necessary. Supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018+. CUDA 7.5+. 6. Flash Attention support via Xformers. 7. Supports 4bit and 16bit…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Highlander▲10MiniMax FastH3 at $0.005/s ($0.30/min). 1344×768 with native audio, over an API.
Sep 2026 · highlander.sh · its alternatives →
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MiniMax Design▲135Your own agent team for open-ended creation
Aug 2026 · design.minimax.io · its alternatives →
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Sony α1▲86The no blackout, high-speed, high-resolution grand prize
2021 · sony.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax CLI▲145Give your AI agents native multimodal capabilities
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LTX.bio▲164Hey HN, after our 13B release we've been working on a faster version of our open-source video model and we're excited to share it. We started with a 13B base model that already had competitive generation speeds (e.g. 55s for a 5s video on an H100 — faster than any other model out there). But we wanted to push it further to allow everyone to quickly iterate over their video generations. So we built a distilled version focused on speed without sacrificing temporal or spatial coherence. With the Distilled model, you can now generate 5-second 720p videos in about 9.5 seconds on an H100, and…
2021 · lightricks.com · its alternatives →
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H3 Max by fal▲153fal's post-trained MiniMax H3 for quality video production
Sep 2026 · blog.fal.ai · its alternatives →
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RISC-V's compressed instruction (RVC) extension is intended as an add-on to the regular, 32-bit instruction set, not a replacement or competitor. Its designers intended RVC instructions to be expanded into regular 32-bit RV32I equivalents via a pre-decoder. What happens if we explicitly architect a RISC-V CPU to execute RVC instructions, and "mop up" any RV32I instructions that aren't convenient via a microcode layer? What architectural optimizations are unlocked as a result? "Minimax" is an experimental RISC-V implementation intended to establish if an RVC-optimized CPU is, in practice, any…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Testing a high speed flash means I need an extremely fast laser camera trigger. And by fast, I mean microseconds (millions of a second). Having recently finished working on Triggertrap Ada, which is the highest-performance, most feature-packed camera trigger out there, I wanted to go the opposite di
2014 · vela.io · its alternatives →
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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip · its alternatives →
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MiniMax Hub▲78Desktop AI workstation with agent-driven visual canvas
May 2026 · hub.minimax.io · its alternatives →
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Google's most cost-effective video generation model
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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