The free launch period ended Oct 22, 2026. MiniMax M3.1 Flash is now served at list price ($0.15/M input, $0.60/M output, $0.015/M cached input).

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MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash

minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash

Model weights

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a multimodal model from MiniMax. Compared with M3, it delivers significant improvements across multiple benchmarks, particularly in complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. It is built for complex, multi-step co-work automation, understanding real codebases, fixing bugs, and building features, and visual understanding and creation, including frontend and presentation creation. It is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 23B active / 428B total parameters.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.075 / $0.30per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Oct 19, 2026

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input
$0.02252/M tokens
Output
$0.5068/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput
286tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.17s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchRelace86.5%74.7%Novita89.3%70.9%Nebius Token Factory87.5%72.6%inference.net87.0%73.0%Together87.6%72.0%inference.net (US)85.0%67.3%
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Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.75%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.75%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.46%
Without Routing
98.63%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (Artificial Analysis and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Intelligence Index29.1
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash HLE48.0%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash AA-LCR79.7%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash GDPval-AA48.2%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash CritPt22.3%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash SciCode53.4%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Terminal-Bench 4.025.8%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash AA-Omniscience Accuracy45.1%
Artificial AnalysisMiniMax-M3.1-Flash AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate6.3%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Access to Justice Benchmark73.3%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash EMB v1.167.8%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Finance Agent v2.158.8%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Vals Finance Index55.9%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash HLAB-Vals-1.17.5%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Vals Legal Index67.1%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Legal Research Bench34.1%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash SAGE85.3%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Tax Agent Bench32.1%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Terminal-Bench 4.025.3%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Vals Index53.8%
Vals AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash Vibe Code Bench v1.173.9%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

1.
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Hermes Agent
1.97Ttokens
2.
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OpenClaw
1.03Ttokens
3.
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Kilo Code
681Btokens
4.
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Mira is the leading AI agent inside Telegram
388Btokens
5.
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pi
151Btokens
Rest of OpenRouter
302B
Top 5 Apps
124B

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Frequently asked questions