--- title: MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill... description: MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, claiming a 70 percent cut in agent costs alongside halved token prices ($0.15/M input, $0.60/M output, $0.015/M cached input) and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-just-halved-its-token-prices-your-ai-agent-bill-may-not-follow--z7gyvdwlv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow. | daily.dev og:description: MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, claiming a 70 percent cut in agent costs alongside halved token prices ($0.15/M input, $0.60/M output, $0.015/M cached input) and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-just-halved-its-token-prices-your-ai-agent-bill-may-not-follow--z7gyvdwlv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z7gYvDwlv.png og:image:alt: MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, claiming a 70 percent cut in agent costs alongside halved token prices ($0.15/M input, $0.60/M output, $0.015/M cached input) and nearly 3x faster inference than M3. Independent analysis from Artificial Analysis found a smaller 57 percent cost reduction per task, and notes the two figures stem from different workloads. Coding benchmarks show M3.1 Flash roughly tied with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, while computer-use scores trail top Anthropic and OpenAI models. On the AA-Omniscience factual benchmark, the model answered 56 percent correctly but attempted nearly every question, producing a high hallucination rate, prompting recommendations for verification and guardrails in knowledge-heavy use. DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash pricing matches MiniMax off-peak but doubles during peak UTC hours, and its cache rate is five times cheaper. Model weights are expected around October 23, the license remains unpublished, and a stronger Pro model is planned without a release date. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much does MiniMax M3.1 Flash cost per million tokens? MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached input tokens. This is half of the per-token pricing of its predecessor M3. MiniMax claims this translates to a 70 percent reduction in overall agent task costs, though independent testing by Artificial Analysis found a smaller 57 percent reduction. _Teams comparing LLM pricing for agent workloads can track real-world cost benchmarks on daily.dev._ ### How does MiniMax M3.1 Flash pricing compare to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash? MiniMax M3.1 Flash matches DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's off-peak pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. DeepSeek doubles those rates during peak hours, 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, excluding Chinese public holidays. DeepSeek's cached input tokens cost $0.003 per million, five times cheaper than MiniMax's $0.015 rate. _Developers weighing DeepSeek against MiniMax for agent pipelines can follow pricing comparisons on daily.dev._ ### Does MiniMax M3.1 Flash have a high hallucination rate? Yes, MiniMax M3.1 Flash answered 56 percent of factual questions correctly on the AA-Omniscience benchmark, ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's 43 percent, but it attempted nearly every question rather than abstaining when unsure. About 93 percent of its non-correct responses were wrong answers rather than abstentions, giving it an overall Omniscience score of 16 and a reputation for confident but inaccurate output. _Developers building knowledge-heavy agents can weigh hallucination tradeoffs across models on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3x the model it replaced, and the era of cheap AI is ending](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-gemini-3-5-flash-costs-3x-the-model-it-replaced-and-the-era-of-cheap-ai-is-ending-ochkeykzb) · XDA Developers · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [MiniMax M2.5: low costs, high performance, relaunches the Chinese AI geopolitical challenge](https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-m2-5-low-costs-high-performance-relaunches-the-chinese-ai-geopolitical-challenge-mhwdnr3ic) · Codemotion · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#deepseek](https://daily.dev/tags/deepseek) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-just-halved-its-token-prices-your-ai-agent-bill-may-not-follow--z7gyvdwlv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MiniMax just halved its token prices. 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