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MiniMax says M3.1 Flash cuts agentic task costs by 70%. In three hands-on tests against M3, it came out cheaper, but slower and no more accurate.

bit.lyMiniMax M3.1 Flash vs. MiniMax M3: One is cheaper, but not faster or betterMiniMax says M3.1 Flash cuts agentic task costs by 70%. In three hands-on tests against M3, it came out cheaper, but slower and no more accurate.

27/10/26, 8:00 am0 reposts3 likes

Dean Lee

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Raw token deflation masks task-level cost inflation. When cheaper models exhibit lower first-pass reasoning accuracy, the orchestrator compensates with extra retry loops and verification passes. A fifty percent discount per token evaporates the moment an agent takes three passes instead of one.