MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview pricing: real cost per million tokens

What MiniMax's MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview really costs across 6 plans from 1 provider: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.

Data updated 2026-10-08 · How real prices are computed

As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview is MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual) at a real cost of about $0.00301 per million tokens ($57.66/month for roughly 19.176B tokens a month). We track 6 plans and API channels that serve MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview.

Lowest real price: $0.00301/MTokMiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual)
API list price: —
Most monthly tokens: 19.176BMiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual)
Plans & APIs: 66 subscriptions · 0 metered APIs

Maker: MiniMax
Model ID: minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Providers: MiniMax

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview plans and real prices

Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.

Every tracked way to use MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview, cheapest first
Plan	Provider	Billing	Monthly fee	Monthly tokens	Real $/MTok	vs API	Confidence	Data date
MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual)	MiniMax	Subscription	$57.66/mo	19.176B	$0.00301	—	Low	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓
MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN Annual)	MiniMax	Subscription	$14.63/mo	4.794B	$0.00305	—	Low	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓
MiniMax M Plan Build (CN)	MiniMax	Subscription	$69.19/mo	19.176B	$0.00361	—	Low	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓
MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN)	MiniMax	Subscription	$17.55/mo	4.794B	$0.00366	—	Low	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓
MiniMax M Plan Go (CN Annual)	MiniMax	Subscription	$6.02/mo	1.598B	$0.00377	—	Low	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓
MiniMax M Plan Go (CN)	MiniMax	Subscription	$7.23/mo	1.598B	$0.00452	—	Medium	2026-10-01	Evidence ↓

Behind each number

For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.

MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual)MiniMax$0.00300662/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · derived; uses the data date of MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Real price / MTok: $0.00300662
Monthly tokens: 19,176,400,000 (19.176B)
Quota confidence: Low
Calculation: $57.66 / month (¥390.8333333333333) ÷ 19,176,400,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00300662 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

https://platform.minimax.cn/docs/m-plan/faq; https://platform.minimax.cn/docs/m-plan/intro; minimax-m31-flash-preview-cn-round1-2026-10-01.json; maintainer screenshot and 2026-10-01 confirmation of Go

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. This tier is Go×12 extrapolated — assumes the official multiplier applies to the weekly pool; not independently measured for this tier.Annual ¥4690; the monthly comparison fee = annual fee/12 — full-year prepayment required, not a per-month price. Assumes the same-tier annual and monthly plans share the same weekly pool — not a one-time grant of a full year of tokens.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

https://platform.minimax.cn/docs/m-plan/faq https://platform.minimax.cn/docs/m-plan/intro https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html minimax-m31-flash-preview-cn-round1-2026-10-01.json Browse the public evidence archive

MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN Annual)MiniMax$0.00305149/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN Annual) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · derived; uses the data date of MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Real price / MTok: $0.00305149
Monthly tokens: 4,794,100,000 (4.794B)
Quota confidence: Low
Calculation: $14.63 / month (¥99.16666666666667) ÷ 4,794,100,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00305149 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. This tier is Go×3 extrapolated — assumes the official multiplier applies to the weekly pool; not independently measured for this tier.Annual ¥1190; the monthly comparison fee = annual fee/12 — full-year prepayment required, not a per-month price. Assumes the same-tier annual and monthly plans share the same weekly pool — not a one-time grant of a full year of tokens.The screenshot's crossed-out annual price ¥1490 conflicts with 119×12=1428; the conflict is kept and the crossed-out price is not used to back-derive the monthly price.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

MiniMax M Plan Build (CN)MiniMax$0.00360794/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Build (CN) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · derived; uses the data date of MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Real price / MTok: $0.00360794
Monthly tokens: 19,176,400,000 (19.176B)
Quota confidence: Low
Calculation: $69.19 / month (¥469) ÷ 19,176,400,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00360794 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. This tier is Go×12 extrapolated — assumes the official multiplier applies to the weekly pool; not independently measured for this tier.Monthly regular price ¥469, recovered from the actual annual price ÷10 and the official FAQ, excluding the first-month promotion.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN)MiniMax$0.00366179/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Explore (CN) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · derived; uses the data date of MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Real price / MTok: $0.00366179
Monthly tokens: 4,794,100,000 (4.794B)
Quota confidence: Low
Calculation: $17.55 / month (¥119) ÷ 4,794,100,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00366179 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. This tier is Go×3 extrapolated — assumes the official multiplier applies to the weekly pool; not independently measured for this tier.Monthly regular price ¥119, recovered from the actual annual price ÷10 and the official FAQ, excluding the first-month promotion.The screenshot's crossed-out annual price ¥1490 conflicts with 119×12=1428; the conflict is kept and the crossed-out price is not used to back-derive the monthly price.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

MiniMax M Plan Go (CN Annual)MiniMax$0.00376957/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Go (CN Annual) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · derived; uses the data date of MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · minimax-m3.1-flash-preview
Real price / MTok: $0.00376957
Monthly tokens: 1,598,000,000 (1.598B)
Quota confidence: Low
Calculation: $6.02 / month (¥40.833333333333336) ÷ 1,598,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00376957 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. Annual ¥490; the monthly comparison fee = annual fee/12 — full-year prepayment required, not a per-month price. Assumes the same-tier annual and monthly plans share the same weekly pool — not a one-time grant of a full year of tokens.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

MiniMax M Plan Go (CN)MiniMax$0.00452348/MTok

Plan: MiniMax M Plan Go (CN) · MiniMax
Data date: 2026-10-01 · sampled
Real price / MTok: $0.00452348
Monthly tokens: 1,598,000,000 (1.598B)
Quota confidence: Medium
Calculation: $7.23 / month (¥49) ÷ 1,598,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.00452348 / MTok
Quota basis: Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is

Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)

Not workload-normalized, provisional estimate: M3.1 has no independent published pricing ratio, so M3 prices are not borrowed; a temporary raw exception with a component-level sample, accepted by ruling on 2026-10-01 (MiniMax has not published official M3.1 prices, so no normalization for now). Go's hourly cumulative 23,970,451 tok maps to weekly-used 4%→10% and 5h-used 41%→100%; it is not a complete 0%→100% 5-hour window. The 12:00–12:01 starting cumulative was not screenshotted; the whole segment assumes the starting hour count was 0 and that no other shared-pool consumption occurred — neither assumption was separately confirmed. The weekly integer-display rounding sensitivity is about 1.36974B~1.91764B/month (4 weeks), not a statistical confidence interval; the mid-to-end delta 12,201,679 tok/3pp maps to 1.62689B/month, kept only for comparison. The all-basis cache/input/output mix is about 95.1823%/3.4854%/1.3323%; the page's 96.5% is the input cache-hit rate, not the standard-workload cache share. Compared under identical workload and saturated use; it is not an official fixed token quota. Monthly regular price ¥49, recovered from the actual annual price ÷10 and the official FAQ, excluding the first-month promotion.; exchange rate 1 USD = 6.7787 CNY (2026-09-04 CNY central parity rate; old rate 7.2); CNY monthly fee divided by the rate to get USD; https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260904/4c1ce1cbf39d416997cb9c237d6f5024/c.html

Frequently asked questions

How much does MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview really cost per million tokens?

Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview ranges from $0.00301 (MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual)) to $0.00452 (MiniMax M Plan Go (CN)) per million tokens.

Which subscription gives the most MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview usage?

MiniMax M Plan Build (CN Annual) allows roughly 19.176B tokens of MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview per month for $57.66.

Who makes MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview, and where can I use it?

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview (model ID minimax-m3.1-flash-preview) is made by MiniMax and is available through MiniMax.

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