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title: "MiniMax M3.1 Flash goes toe-to-toe with Opus and GPT on coding at ~25x lower cost."
description: "MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a newly announced model with stated availability through the MiniMax API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code."
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published_at: "2026-10-19"
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# MiniMax M3.1 Flash goes toe-to-toe with Opus and GPT on coding at ~25x lower cost.

## Retrieval answer

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a newly announced model with stated availability through the MiniMax API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a newly announced model with stated availability through the MiniMax API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code. The announcement reports 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 61.7 on OSWorld V2. It lists prices of $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached input tokens, and says agent-task usage costs 70% less than its predecessor. These are company-published claims, not independently verified results.

Thesis: A low-cost model release matters when teams can test the price-performance tradeoff in their own agent workflows. Mechanism: M3.1 Flash pairs reported benchmark performance with published per-token prices and access through three MiniMax channels, making an initial evaluation possible without waiting for the announced later release of model weights. Why now: MiniMax says the model is available now through its API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code. That enables teams to test the stated economics directly, while the launch is current.

Implication: Builders can compare the published rates and benchmark claims with the cost and completion quality of their own coding and computer-use tasks. Evidence boundary: The supplied source is MiniMax’s announcement; it gives company-reported benchmark scores and pricing but no independent replication or detailed evaluation methodology in the supplied material. What to watch: Independent evaluations and real workflow tests should show whether the reported capability and cost translate into reliable completed tasks. The announcement establishes a testable offer, not proof that the model matches competitors across workloads.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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