MiniMax Claims M3.1 Flash Cuts Agent Usage Costs 70% at $0.15 per Million Input
Summary
MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash, claiming the agent-focused model cuts usage costs 70% versus its predecessor and reaches output speeds above 200 tokens per second. MiniMax prices it at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. It is available through the MiniMax API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code, with weights promised later.
Key Points
- MiniMax says Space Bunny, an early version of M3.1 Flash, processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating anonymously.
- MiniMax reports M3.1 Flash scores 76.2 on BankerToolBench, which tests multi-step planning across documents and files.
- MiniMax credits M3.1 Flash with 82% on CyberGym for vulnerability discovery, citing internal security expert evaluations.