MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax’s Flash model, 3x faster and 70% cheaper for agents
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash is MiniMax’s new Flash model for agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. MiniMax says it is about 3x faster online and 70% cheaper for agentic tasks than its predecessor, with output at 200+ tokens per second. Pricing is $0.15 input and $0.60 output per 1M tokens. It’s on the MiniMax API, M Plan and MiniMax Code, and weights are promised later.
PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 171 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a proprietary frontier-scale language model, and a comparable model requires massive training compute, data, and research teams that vibe coding cannot provide.
What it would actually take: Building a comparable model means large-scale pretraining and post-training on curated data, plus efficient inference serving. This requires a research team, large GPU clusters, and months of training runs, far beyond a solo builder.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 130 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 131 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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