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MiniMax M3.1 Flash benchmarks, pricing and specs
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a MiniMax model released on October 19, 2026 that takes text, image and video input and produces text. It costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens and accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context.
- Per 1M input tokens
- $0.15Listed today
- Per 1M output tokens
- $0.60Listed today
- Context window
- 1M#26 of 64 current models
Data verified October 23, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-23
Specs
Key facts
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Model family
- MiniMax M3
- Release date
- October 19, 2026
- Status
- Current
- Access
- API and open weights
- API model id
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text, image, video
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text, multimodal
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning, agentic coding, image understanding, video understanding
Charts
Against every current text model
Where MiniMax M3.1 Flash lands among the current models of its task, on every independent benchmark, on price and on context.
Where it stands
4 of 49 list a lower price per 1M input tokens. Each bar is the share of current models it beats.
Price and context
Price per 1M input tokens
#5of 49
$0.15 · cheaper than 90%
Price per 1M output tokens
#6of 49
$0.60 · cheaper than 90%
Context window
#26of 64
1M tokens · longer than 22%
Benchmarks
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. MiniMax's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for MiniMax M3.1 Flash yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Fit
Strengths, cautions and best uses
- Strengths
- A mixture-of-experts model with 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context that reads text, images and video
- MiniMax reports 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1 and nearly three times the online inference speed of its predecessor at about 70% lower cost on agent tasks
- Low list price of $0.15 input and $0.60 output per 1M tokens, with weights on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence
- Cautions
- Thinking cannot be turned off; effort runs from low to max, and max is the default
- MiniMax gives two parameter counts (about 428B in the model card, 220B in the file metadata), and no independent benchmark score is recorded here yet
- Best for
- Low-cost coding and agent loops
- Long-context multimodal work on a budget
From benchmark to production
Building on MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
Public scores rarely hold on your own data. We test it against the alternatives on your real tasks, then build the agent or pipeline around the model that wins.
Alternatives
Alternatives to MiniMax M3.1 Flash
The closest current text models by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
On score and price
MiniMax M3.1 Flash beside the 4 alternatives listed below, on Arena Text and on blended price per 1M tokens.
Arena Text
Measured October 8, 2026, higher is better
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- Not scored
- GLM-5.3-Flash
- 1,475
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash
- 1,451
- GPT-5.6 Luna
- 1,452
- Mercury 2.5
- Not scored
Blended price per 1M tokens
Listed today, lower is better
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- $0.262
- GLM-5.3-Flash
- $0.238
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash
- $0.175
- GPT-5.6 Luna
- $0.45
- Mercury 2.5
- $0.338
GLM-5.3-Flash
- Same price per 1M input tokens, $0.15
- From Z.ai
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
- 7% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.14 vs $0.15
- From Xiaomi MiMo
GPT-5.6 Luna
- 33% more per 1M input tokens, $0.20 vs $0.15
- From OpenAI
Mercury 2.5
- 33% more per 1M input tokens, $0.20 vs $0.15
- 260K context window vs 1M
- From Inception
Further reading
More on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
FAQ
MiniMax M3.1 Flash FAQ
How much does MiniMax M3.1 Flash cost?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens at the standard tier. It is the #5 cheapest of 49 current text models priced per 1M input tokens. Source: MiniMax, verified October 23, 2026.
What is the context window of MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context. That ranks #26 of 64 current text models by context length.
Is MiniMax M3.1 Flash open source or API only?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is available both through MiniMax's API and as open weights you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are GLM-5.3-Flash (same price per 1M input tokens, $0.15), MiMo-V2.6-Flash (7% cheaper per 1M input tokens, $0.14 vs $0.15), GPT-5.6 Luna (33% more per 1M input tokens, $0.20 vs $0.15) and Mercury 2.5 (33% more per 1M input tokens, $0.20 vs $0.15).
Sources
Sources
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash · MiniMax · official · verified October 23, 2026
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash model card · MiniMax · official · verified October 23, 2026
- MiniMax API text generation guide · MiniMax · official · verified October 23, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "MiniMax M3.1 Flash Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-23. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/minimax-m3-1-flash
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Production evaluation
Deciding whether MiniMax M3.1 Flash fits your workload?
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- Evaluation cases and acceptance thresholds tied to real work
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