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MiniMax M3.1 Flash pairs hosted access with community-licensed weights

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MiniMax’s October 19 launch targets coding and agent workflows. Its official model card now provides downloadable multimodal weights. The MiniMax Community License has conditions; this is source-available access, not a permissive open-source release.

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Published October 19, 20261 min readJoin the discussion ↓Original links ↓

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$0.15 / 1MInput tokens · provider launch pricing (USD)Source ↗ · 2026-10-19$0.60 / 1MOutput tokens · provider launch pricing (USD)Source ↗ · 2026-10-19

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The launch lists API, M Plan and MiniMax Code access, at $0.15 input, $0.015 cached input and $0.60 output per million tokens. Check current billing before use.

The model card supports text, image and video input. Download instructions do not establish that a deployment will fit your hardware. We did not execute the examples or reproduce provider benchmarks.

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