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MiniMax M3.1 Flash cuts agentic task costs 70%, priced at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens

MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on October 19, 2026, claiming 70% lower agentic task cost and nearly 3x faster online inference than M3. It's priced at $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output tokens — half M3's discounted rate. Together AI says it beats Opus 5.5 on agentic automation at ~27x lower cost, with a 1M context window and vision support.

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MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE agentic model at $0.15/M input

The open-weight multimodal MoE has ~23B active parameters and a 1M-token context, with reasoning always on across five effort levels. MiniMax claims 70% lower agent costs and leads Automation-Bench v1.0.6 at 62.2, but scores 38.1 on Terminal Bench 4.0 versus 51.8 for Opus 5.