MiniMax releases the M3.1 Flash model, at one-third the cost of M3 and 3x faster
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, which reaches frontier-level performance on tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench 62%, ALE 30%), coding (DeepSWE 74%), and visual reasoning (BabyVision 91%), at one-third the cost of M3 and 3x the speed. The unified API price is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 per 1M tokens. The company says Space Bunny, which previously topped global leaderboards and processed 200T+ tokens, is an early version of M3.1 Flash, and the model weights will be released on October 23.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Performance + Bunny Speed
🚀🐰 Yes, Space Bunny - which has topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens - was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash.
💰Redefining the performance economics of agentic AI. M3.1 Flash achieves frontier-level intelligence across key tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%) and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%), at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed.
API pricing (flat rate): $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 / 1M tokens.
Model weights will arrive on Oct 23.