MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: API pricing, providers and specs
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a text model by MiniMax. 16 providers serve it, from $0.45 to $1.22 /1M; the lowest price is at EmpirioLabs AI.
How MiniMax-M3.1-Flash compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.45 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 68% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 1.05M-token context window is larger than 83% of them (median 262K), about 1570 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #26 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 16 providers serve it; 85% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the minimax-community license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nvidia | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — |
 EmpirioLabs AI | $0.113/1M | $0.45/1M | $0.011/1M | 1M |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.10/1M | From$0.50/1M | $0.005/1M | — |
| MiniMaxOfficial | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
| ZenMux | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | 1M |
 Requesty | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | 1M |
 Novita AI | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | 1.05M |
| OpenRouter | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | 1.05M |
 Together AI | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
 Impossibl | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.165/1M | $0.66/1M | $0.017/1M | — |
 Venice AI | $0.188/1M | $0.75/1M | $0.019/1M | — |
 TensorX | $0.30/1M | $1.20/1M | $0.08/1M | — |
 Cortecs | $0.306/1M | $1.22/1M | $0.076/1M | — |
- EmpirioLabs AI$0.45
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.50
- MiniMaxOfficial$0.60
- ZenMux$0.60
- Novita AI$0.60
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.60
- Together AI$0.60
- AI/ML API$0.60
- Impossibl$0.60
- RequestyFrom$0.60
- OpenRouterFrom$0.60
- AIHubMix$0.66
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- MiniMax
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1.05M≈ 1570 pages of text
- Max output
- 524K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Oct 17, 2026
- License
- minimax-communitycommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 220B
- Arena score
- 1590WebDev
- Monthly searches
- 29K
Alternatives to MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
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| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax-M3.1-Flashthis model | $0.45/1M | 1.05M | 1590 | 16 |
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| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.20/1M | 1.05M | 1608 | 45 |
 Qwen3.8 27B | $0.50/1M | 262K | 1591 | 33 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
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| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
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MiniMax charges $0.60 /1M for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash. The lowest price across providers is $0.45 /1M, at EmpirioLabs AI.
EmpirioLabs AI, at $0.45 /1M. 16 providers serve MiniMax-M3.1-Flash; the table above lists every one with its price.
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash reads up to 1.05M tokens per request and writes up to 524K.
Yes. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the minimax-community license.
About 220B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
16 API providers serve MiniMax-M3.1-Flash. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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