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title: "MiniMax ships M3.1 Flash with 70% lower agentic usage costs"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, October 20, 2026."
canonical: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-20/minimax-ships-m3-1-flash-with-70-lower-agentic-usage-costs
updated: 2026-10-20
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# MiniMax ships M3.1 Flash with 70% lower agentic usage costs

From The Forward Pass daily issue, October 20, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-20). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-20/minimax-ships-m3-1-flash-with-70-lower-agentic-usage-costs

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**Top News** · 423 HN points

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](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f)