Key Info
A developer test shared by @nutlope compares MiniMax M3.1 Flash against Claude Opus 5.5 on a hardware launch landing page task, finding M3.1 Flash 88x cheaper, 4x faster, and more token efficient.
Highlights
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash cost $0.014 for the landing page task; Claude Opus 5.5 cost $1.22
- The model was described as 'insane at design' in the side-by-side comparison
- M3.1 Flash ran 4x faster and used fewer tokens than Opus 5.5
- The quoted post notes 'Space Bunny,' a leaderboard-topping model with 200T+ tokens, was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash
- The comparison positions M3.1 Flash as redefining performance economics for agentic AI