MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview is a multimodal reasoning model for code and agent workflows, accessed through eligible MiniMax plans and tools.

Key specifications

Specification score
61.7
Context window
1M
License
Publisher API terms

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Pricing conditions: Access is through M Plan and MiniMax Code at present. No first-party pay-as-you-go token rate has been established for this preview.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input
  • Video input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction callingVisionStreaming

What is MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview?

Current interface and availability

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview is currently available through M Plan and MiniMax Code. This does not establish an unrestricted pay-as-you-go route or an independently verified token rate. It remains a preview model. Keep subscription access and quotas separate from ordinary API billing when comparing deployment options.

Deployment is part of the comparison

Keep the hosted model ID separate from a downloadable checkpoint name. A local serving engine can expose a different subset of tool, visual and structured-output features from the first-party service. Replay the application’s message history and tool results with the exact interface and reasoning settings you intend to use.

Limits and cost in a complete task

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Evaluating MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview

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The specifications describe supported interfaces and request capacity. They do not establish a measured quality ranking or a latency guarantee for your account. SyncDev has not independently benchmarked this model. Choose a deployment after testing the languages, input formats and operating conditions that matter to your users.

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How to evaluate MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview

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Tasks and inputs

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview is listed for Image-text-to-text, Text generation, Video-text-to-text. It accepts text, image, video and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 1M context. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

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Frequently asked questions

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