#minimax

MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens, reads images and video, and targets agents and coding. Benchmarks, limits and who should try it.

Three cheap, fast agent models launched within three days. MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Mercury 3 on price, speed and benchmarks.

MiniMax now documents M3.1 Flash as a Claude Code backend. The settings to change, what the M Plan and API cost, and the limits to check before switching.

FLUX 3 Video drafts cost $0.06/s against $0.17/s HD, and draft_enhance replays the same seed. MiniMax H3 regenerates a 768P keeper to 2K at $0.05/s.

H3 and Seedance 2.5 landed the same day. At H3's published 2K rate, a 30-second ad variant costs about $3.90 to generate, less than most review time.

MiniMax launched H3, a 2K video model with native synced audio at $0.13 per second. Weights are promised within days, not published yet.

MiniMax M2.7 release deep dive — agentic coding benchmarks, tool-use performance, multi-step reasoning, and how it compares to M2.5 and Kimi K2.5.

Q2 2026 report on 10 Chinese AI providers, from Xiaomi and Qwen to DeepSeek and Kimi: OpenRouter token share, list prices, licenses and enterprise fit.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of industrial-scale distillation via 24,000 fake accounts and 16M+ Claude exchanges. Full analysis inside.

MiniMax M2.5 scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified in MiniMax’s runs and launched at $0.30/$2.40 per million tokens (Lightning). Benchmarks, pricing, API access.

MiniMax M2 achieves 69.4 on SWE-bench at 8% of Claude's cost. Complete guide to China's open-source AI model for agents, coding & multimodal apps.