MiniMax · Efficient
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a multimodal model for coding, tool use, and long-context work. It accepts text, images, and video and produces text, with a 1,000,000-token context window and up to 524,288 output tokens within the remaining context. Thinking is always enabled, with low, medium, high, xhigh, and max effort levels; max is the default. Thinking tokens count toward the output limit. Temperature is fixed at 1 and top-p at 0.95; custom values have no effect.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.60
- Cache read
- $0.015
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 524.3K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.4K tokens
- Longer than 82% of 468 models
Side by side
MiniMax M3.1 Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxThis model | MiniMax M3MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Open weights |
| Added | Oct 19, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 512K |
| Max output | 524.29KBest | 80K |
| Average output | 1.4K tokens | 491 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $0.23 |
| Output | $0.60Best | $0.96 |
| Cache read | $0.015Best | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 119.8 tok/s | 202.4 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 7.0 s | 2.8 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.7% | 99.9%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 42.7Best | 29.2 |
| Coding Index | — | 58.6 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high, xhigh, max | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- MiniMax M3
Intelligence Index
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash42.7
- MiniMax M329.2
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Better than 88% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 58.6
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 72.5%Top
- MiniMax M3: 21.3%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 38.1%Top
- MiniMax M3: 4.4%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,473 EloTop
- MiniMax M3: 1,089 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,458 EloTop
- MiniMax M3: 1,243 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 20.8%Top
- MiniMax M3: 9.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
- MiniMax M3: 83.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 16.7%Top
- MiniMax M3: 4.4%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 48.0%Top
- MiniMax M3: 39.0%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 92.9%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 82.9%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 25.8%Top
- MiniMax M3: 2.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 53.4%Top
- MiniMax M3: 47.1%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 42.4%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
- MiniMax M3: 88.9%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
- MiniMax M3: 83.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- MiniMax M3
| Leaderboard | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not in top 20 | #8 · 90.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- MiniMax M3
| Leaderboard | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1124 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1197 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1162 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 119.8 tok/s
- Faster than 68% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 7.0 s
- Quicker than 22% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 78.4%
- About $0.0441 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.7%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)MiniMax
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