MODEL PROFILE · MiniMax
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview
A documented coding and reasoning preview with text, image and video input. Access is restricted to Token Plan and MiniMax Code; this is not a video generator.
Source reviewed: · Language model · restricted preview
Provider documentation summary. No hands-on results or independent ranking are claimed.
Documented facts
The following fields come from the official provider source, reviewed on the date above.
- Identity / access
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Preview. September 29 documentation restricts access to Token Plan and MiniMax Code; this review date is not a launch date.
- Supported modalities
- Text, image and video input for understanding; text answers with separate thinking content.
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens, according to the provider. A context window is not a verified maximum answer length.
- Reasoning controls
- Five effort levels: low, medium, high, xhigh and max; max is the default. Thinking cannot be disabled.
- Request compatibility
- Anthropic-compatible and OpenAI-compatible formats are documented. Compatible format does not remove the preview access restriction.
- Provider positioning
- Designed for coding, tool use, agentic reasoning and long-context tasks. These are provider descriptions, not our measured strengths.
- Pricing / weights / license
- No verified unit price, downloadable weights or model-specific license established in this review. Check the current plan terms before use.
- Output limit
- Not established here. The example request value is not treated as the service maximum.
The practical decision
The useful question is whether adjustable reasoning helps a particular coding or document task under the access conditions you actually have. Start with a task whose outcome you can verify, such as a small code change with acceptance checks or a document question with a known answer. Preserve the input, version and effort setting so a later run is comparable. This is evaluation guidance, not a recommendation based on hands-on results.
What to record in your own comparison
- Check your account has access to this exact preview identifier before planning an integration. A compatible SDK alone does not establish entitlement.
- Separate input understanding from media generation when selecting alternatives. An image or video supplied to a language model is not evidence that it can render a new clip.
- Compare effort settings on the same task and judge the usable final answer. Record waiting time, rejected outputs and corrections if you later perform your own evaluation.
- Keep plan allowances and actual usage records alongside the task outcome. An unavailable price field must remain unknown rather than becoming a zero-cost estimate.
Limitations and unknowns
We did not call this model, inspect paid-account access or measure its output quality. The preview designation should stay attached to saved results. No predecessor speed figure, benchmark rank, architecture or output cap is transferred to this version. Provider documentation establishes the listed interface, not reliability on every task. The Token Plan page returned no readable pricing body in this check, so this profile makes no subscription-price claim.
Compare your saved results
Use the DualView editor to inspect files you already have. The accepted-output calculator uses your own rates and counts. Neither link runs a model or purchases generation.
Related reporting
- Claude Sonnet 5.5: separate language-model profile
- GPT-6 Sol: separate coding-model profile
- Kimi K3.1: explicitly unverified successor report