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Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

About MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
$0.15/1M input tokens
Pricing Details:
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.

Integrations

API:
Yes, MiniMax M3.1 Flash offers API access
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Ratings/Reviews - 1 User Review

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does MiniMax M3.1 Flash work with?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does MiniMax M3.1 Flash support in their product?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash supports these languages: English.
Q: What other applications or services does MiniMax M3.1 Flash integrate with?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash integrates with: Alibaba AI Coding Plan, APIFree, BLACKBOX AI, Claude Code, Clawd.run, Cline, ClinePass, Factory Droid, Fireworks AI, Hermes Agent, Kilo Code, MaxHermes, MiniMax Agent, MiniMax Code, MiniMax Mavis, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Ollama, OpenClaw, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen, OpenTag, Pi Agent, Roo Code, Tabbit Browser, and Together AI and more.
Q: Does MiniMax M3.1 Flash have an API?
Yes, MiniMax M3.1 Flash has an API.
Q: What type of training does MiniMax M3.1 Flash provide?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does MiniMax M3.1 Flash cost?
Pricing for MiniMax M3.1 Flash starts at $0.15/1M input tokens.

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Verified User Reviews

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  • A MiniMax M3.1 Flash User
    CTO
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Deployment
    Company Size: 26 - 99
    Ease 5 out of 5 stars
    Pricing 5 out of 5 stars
    Probability You Would Recommend? 10 out of 10

    "Ridiculously good"

    5 out of 5 stars Posted 2026-10-21

    Pros: It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

    Cons: The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial tasks.

    Overall: Def an excellent everyday agent model. It is fast, cheap, multimodal, and capable enough that I can use it for serious work without constantly stepping up to a much more expensive flagship model.

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