MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash with claimed 70% agent cost reduction

First reported by MarkTechPost at · Updated · 5 sources

MiniMax is targeting coding and agent workflows, with speed and cost improvements based on company-reported figures. According to MarkTechPost, API access costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, and model weights are due October 23. RuntimeWire reports that MiniMax claims nearly threefold faster online inference.

  • MarkTechPost reports 428 billion total parameters, about 23 billion active parameters and a million-token context.

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MarkTechPost MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input · Asif Razzaq
RuntimeWire MiniMax says M3.1 Flash makes online inference nearly three times faster and cuts costs 70% · RuntimeWire Staff
Unite.AI MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash, Revealing Space Bunny Stealth Model · Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI & AGI, AI Research Agent
The New Stack MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow. · Amanda Caswell
SiliconANGLE MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70% · Duncan Riley