# MiniMax — MiniMax M3.1 Flash > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the record of one model version: what the model registry states about it, MiniMax's launch post, the first-party posts this record holds about it, the outlets that reported on those posts, and other companies' announcements that it runs on their platforms. A model ranks nothing here and nothing is composed: each date names whose it is, and a field nothing states is `not stated` rather than missing. - This model's page: https://forck.live/models/minimax-m3-1-flash - MiniMax's page: https://forck.live/company/minimax - Every model: https://forck.live/models - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Model - Name: MiniMax M3.1 Flash - Company: MiniMax (minimax.io) - Launch post: MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost — https://forck.live/items/24534-minimax-m3-1-flash-redefining-agent-performance-and-cost - Announced: 2026-10-19 - Launch source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f - Launch chosen by: the earliest dated release post naming it - Released (per models.dev): 2026-10-19 - Listed (per OpenRouter): 2026-10-19 - Open weights: no - Posts about it: 1 - Outlets named under its posts: 7 - Variant of: MiniMax M3 — https://forck.live/models/minimax-m3 - OpenRouter id: minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash — https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash - Price: Flat pricing per 1M tokens: $0.15 input · $0.60 output · $0.015 cached input — from https://forck.live/items/24534-minimax-m3-1-flash-redefining-agent-performance-and-cost ## Posts about it _MiniMax's own posts whose title names MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and its launch post, in the record's order: dated newest first, undated last. 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Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. ### MiniMax — MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost - Company: MiniMax (minimax.io) - Announced: 2026-10-19 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f - Record: https://forck.live/items/24534-minimax-m3-1-flash-redefining-agent-performance-and-cost - Subject: MiniMax models MiniMax has released MiniMax M3.1 Flash, a model it says makes online inference nearly three times faster and cuts usage costs by 70% compared with its predecessor. The company says the model improves on agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity, and that an early version ran anonymously as Space Bunny, processing more than 200 trillion tokens. MiniMax reports 76.2 on BankerToolBench, 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, 61.7 points on OSWorld V2 and 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam, ranking first among Chinese models on the last two. It scored 82% on CyberGym, which MiniMax says shows leading capability in vulnerability discovery and validation. MiniMax attributes the speed to more aggressive sparsity, with output reaching 200+ tokens per second and median speeds consistently at 170+ TPS. Pricing is flat at $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens and $0.015 per million cached input tokens, and the model is available through the MiniMax API, M Plan and MiniMax Code, with weights to follow later. ## Who reported on it _Outlets this record can name and link, under the first-party post each one covered. Their number is `Outlets named under its posts` above, and the rows are not totalled again. A post's own `Coverage` can be higher: it counts outlets the signal saw that this record cannot name and link._ ### On: MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost Record: https://forck.live/items/24534-minimax-m3-1-flash-redefining-agent-performance-and-cost - SiliconANGLE — MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70% (2026-10-19T22:25:50+00:00): https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/19/minimax-launches-m3-1-flash-model-says-it-cuts-ai-agent-costs-by-70/ - The Decoder — MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight (2026-10-19T18:22:30+00:00): https://the-decoder.com/minimax-m3-1-flash-shows-chinas-ai-price-race-has-no-floor-in-sight/ - Unite.AI — MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash, Revealing Space Bunny Stealth Model (2026-10-19T15:50:13+00:00): https://www.unite.ai/minimax-launches-m3-1-flash-revealing-space-bunny-stealth-model/ - RuntimeWire — MiniMax says M3.1 Flash makes online inference nearly three times faster and cuts costs 70% (2026-10-19T13:17:58+00:00): https://runtimewire.com/article/minimax-m31-flash-yan-junjie-inference-cost - Forkast — MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launched With 200 Trillion Tokens of Proof. The Name Came Second.: https://forkast.news/minimax-m3-1-flash-launched-with-200-trillion-tokens-of-proof-the-name-came-second - The New Stack — MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow.: https://thenewstack.io/minimax-flash-agent-costs - WinBuzzer: https://winbuzzer.com/2026/10/20/minimax-m3-1-flash-boosts-ai-reasoning-at-lower-test-cost-xcxwbn --- Record: https://forck.live/models/minimax-m3-1-flash Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md