MiniMax M3.1 Flash on BenchGecko · 1M context at $0.15 and $0.60 per M tokens
MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on 2026-10-19. BenchGecko lists it at $0.15 input and $0.60 output per M tokens, half the list price of MiniMax M3, with a 1M token context.
What launched
MiniMax released MiniMax M3.1 Flash on 2026-10-19. MiniMax says the anonymous model that ran under the name Space Bunny, which processed more than 200 trillion tokens, was an early version of M3.1 Flash. A preview had been available inside MiniMax Code since 2026-09-27.
It is available through the MiniMax API, the M Plan and MiniMax Code. MiniMax says the weights will be released later. BenchGecko added the model today under MiniMax.
Specs
From MiniMax's documentation and API listings:
- Context · 1M tokens, stored as 1,000,000 on BenchGecko
- Max output · 524,288 tokens on OpenRouter
- Inputs · text, image and video
- Output · text
- Reasoning · always on, with tunable effort from low to max
- Weights · not released yet
Pricing on BenchGecko
MiniMax prices M3.1 Flash at a flat $0.15 per M input tokens and $0.60 per M output tokens, with cached input at $0.015. BenchGecko stores those first-party rates on the model row.
MiniMax M3, released 2026-05-31, lists at $0.30 input and $1.20 output per M tokens on BenchGecko, with cache reads at $0.06. M3.1 Flash halves the input and output list price and cuts the cached input rate to a quarter. MiniMax separately claims a 70% lower overall cost on agentic tasks and output speeds above 200 tokens per second, with a median above 170.
OpenRouter carries a free endpoint today. A paid OpenRouter listing is not live yet.
Compare rates · BenchGecko pricing.
Vendor-reported benchmarks
MiniMax reports these results in its launch post. BenchGecko records them as vendor claims. No independent scores or Gecko Tests are attached to M3.1 Flash yet. MiniMax M3 carries 35 benchmark scores on BenchGecko.
- BankerToolBench · 76.2
- DeepSWE v1.1 · 73.7%
- OSWorld V2 · 61.7
- Agents' Last Exam · 29.6
- CyberGym · 82%
Sources
Source: BenchGecko
Written automatically from BenchGecko's tracked data for this period; every number comes from the changelog, model, mindshare and pricing datasets. Checked against the source data before publishing.