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AI · October 19, 2026

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax’s Flash model, 3x faster and 70% cheaper for agents

MiniMax M3.1 Flash launched on October 19, 2026 with 223 votes, #47 of 4,112 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

What it does

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is MiniMax’s new Flash model for agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. MiniMax says it is about 3x faster online and 70% cheaper for agentic tasks than its predecessor, with output at 200+ tokens per second. Pricing is $0.15 input and $0.60 output per 1M tokens. It’s on the MiniMax API, M Plan and MiniMax Code, and weights are promised later.

Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster and reducing usage costs by 70%.

Space Bunny 🐰, which processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating anonymously, was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster and reducing usage costs by 70%. M3.1 Flash improves across a broad range of benchmarks, reaching the level of leading models in complex agentic tasks (cowork), computer use, software development (coding), and cybersecurity. We have further optimized M3.1 Flash’s inference efficiency through more aggressive sparsity. In everyday use, output speeds can reach 200+ TPS (tokens…from minimax.io

Pricing, as stated on its site

Paid from $0.15/mo — MiniMax M3.1 Flash uses pay-as-you-go pricing: $0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.60 per 1M output tokens, and $0.015 per 1M cached input tokens.

checked October 2026 · prices change

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