MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash, claiming 70% lower cost and nearly 3x faster inference
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost
MiniMax officially rolled out MiniMax M3.1 Flash, a next-generation Flash model that it says cuts usage cost by 70% versus its predecessor and makes online inference nearly three times faster. The company reports 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, 76.2 on BankerToolBench, 61.7 on OSWorld V2, 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam and 82% on CyberGym, with output speeds of 200+ TPS and a median of 170+ TPS. Pricing is $0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.60 per 1M output tokens and $0.015 per 1M cached input tokens, and the model is available through the MiniMax API, M Plan and MiniMax Code, with weights to be released later.
MiniMax's Flash model claims top-tier agentic and coding scores at $0.15 per 1M input tokens, offering a concrete data point on the cost side of agent workloads.
Source:MiniMax Blog · minimax.io