MiniMax ships M3.1 Flash with 70% lower agentic usage costs

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M3.1 Flash is MiniMax's hosted model for coding, computer use, and multi-step workflows, with output priced at $0.60 per million tokens. You can access it through the MiniMax API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code.

Here's what you get:

• Input costs $0.15 per million tokens, while cached input costs $0.015 per million tokens.
• Everyday output speeds reach up to 200+ tokens per second, with median speeds of 170+ tokens per second.
• Complex software task performance reaches 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1.
• Computer-use results include 61.7 on OSWorld V2, alongside 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam.

One catch: Model weights are not available yet.

Try it: Use the MiniMax API at https://platform.minimax.io, or download MiniMax Code for desktop at https://agent.minimax.io/download.

Sources: minimax.io