MiniMax-M3.1-Flash API pricing
MiniMax · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-24
Current price
CNY per million tokens.
| Input (cache miss) | 1 |
|---|---|
| Input (cache hit) | 0.1 |
| Output | 4 |
What it costs
At the prices above, with no cache hits.
Estimates cover the listed input, cache-read and output token rates only; cache-write, storage and tool-call charges are excluded.
| 10M input and 2M output tokens a month | ¥18 |
|---|---|
| 100M input and 20M output tokens a month | ¥180 |
| 1000M input and 200M output tokens a month | ¥1,800 |
A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about ¥0.004; ten thousand such calls cost about ¥40.
For your own usage: API cost calculator
Where it ranks
Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is number 5 of 31 models. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).
| 1. OpenAI gpt-6-luna | 135 CNY / month |
|---|---|
| 2. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | 135 CNY / month |
| 3. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash | 136 CNY / month |
| 4. Baidu ERNIE-4.5-Turbo | 144 CNY / month |
| 5. MiniMax MiniMax-M3.1-Flash | 180 CNY / month |
| 6. DeepSeek deepseek-flash | 270 CNY / month |
| 7. Qwen qwen3.7-plus | 360 CNY / month |
| 8. MiniMax MiniMax-M3 | 378 CNY / month |
| 9. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7 | 378 CNY / month |
| 10. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 539 CNY / month |
| 11. Mistral AI Mistral Large | 539 CNY / month |
| 12. Baidu ERNIE-5.1 | 760 CNY / month |
| 13. Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1,010 CNY / month |
| 14. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro | 1,080 CNY / month |
| 15. xAI grok-4.3 | 1,178 CNY / month |
| 16. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 17. Kimi kimi-k2.6 | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 18. Zhipu GLM-5.3 | 1,360 CNY / month |
| 19. Mistral AI Mistral Large 4 | 1,479 CNY / month |
| 20. Qwen qwen3.8-max | 1,920 CNY / month |
| 21. xAI grok-4.7 | 2,155 CNY / month |
| 22. Kimi kimi-k3.1-pro | 2,660 CNY / month |
| 23. OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol | 2,693 CNY / month |
| 24. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 2,693 CNY / month |
| 25. Google Gemini 4 Argon | 2,693 CNY / month |
| 26. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 2,963 CNY / month |
| 27. Kimi kimi-k3 | 4,000 CNY / month |
| 28. Kimi kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeed | 5,320 CNY / month |
| 29. Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | 5,386 CNY / month |
| 30. OpenAI gpt-6-astra | 13,466 CNY / month |
| 31. Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | 13,466 CNY / month |
Other MiniMax models
- MiniMax-M3: ¥2.1 input, ¥8.4 output
- MiniMax-M2.7: ¥2.1 input, ¥8.4 output
MiniMax against other vendors
- DeepSeek vs MiniMax
- Kimi vs MiniMax
- Qwen vs MiniMax
- Zhipu vs MiniMax
- MiniMax vs ERNIE
- MiniMax vs OpenAI
- MiniMax vs Claude
- MiniMax vs Gemini
- MiniMax vs Grok
- MiniMax vs Mistral
MiniMax price changes
Verification date: MiniMax lists M3.1-Flash at ¥1 input / ¥0.1 cached input / ¥4 output per million tokens; existing M3 standard rates are unchanged. This is not an asserted launch or repricing date. source