MiniMax · Released Oct 19, 2026MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
Frontier multimodal coding model with 1M context window and tunable thinking depth.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.60per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1M512K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.15per million tokens
- Output
- $0.60per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.015per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.263cheaper than 72% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.60 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $6.75 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $67.50 |
Official MiniMax (minimax.io) API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash yet.
The details
- Lab
- MiniMax
- Released
- Oct 19, 2026
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 512,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Adjustable effort low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
MiniMax-M3.1-Flashon MiniMax (minimax.io)- Availability
- 25 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
How much does MiniMax-M3.1-Flash cost?
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash costs $0.15 input / $0.60 output per million tokens (official MiniMax (minimax.io) API price). Cached input is $0.015 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.263 per million tokens, cheaper than 72% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of MiniMax-M3.1-Flash?
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 512,000 tokens in one response.
How good is MiniMax-M3.1-Flash?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash yet.
Is MiniMax-M3.1-Flash open source?
No. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is proprietary; you use it through MiniMax (minimax.io)’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does MiniMax-M3.1-Flash support?
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash accepts text, images and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model with low, medium, high, xhigh and max effort settings, supports tool calling.
When was MiniMax-M3.1-Flash released?
MiniMax released MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on Oct 19, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to MiniMax-M3.1-Flash?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B A12B (NVIDIA, $0.20 / $0.50), Kolibri 1 (Aleph Alpha, $0.164 / $0.574), Qwen3.8 Flash Next (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.20 / $0.50) and Viv Fast (Vivgrid, $0.13 / $0.40).