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Ways to run MiniMax M3.1 Flash

4 ways to run MiniMax M3.1 Flash: subscriptions, coding plans and APIs, cheapest first, with how each plan's limits work.

62 plans from 17 providers, checked

4 ways to run MiniMax M3.1 Flash, cheapest first

Ranked by the lowest monthly price; other currencies after US dollars, pay-per-use last.

  • MiniMax

    M Plan Go

    Coding planUsage multiplesOpaque: no published token or dollar conversion
    $22
    per month
    Limits
    Usage is measured relative to Go: Go is 1x (baseline), Explore is 3x and Build is 7.5x. Each tier has a 5-hour window and a weekly window; when a window ends, usage resets to the tier's full limit. Actual consumption varies with model, context length and task complexity. No token or dollar figures are published. Only relative multiples of Go are published; no conversion to tokens or dollars.
    Rules
    • Subscription key must be kept secret; do not commit it to a code repository (M Plan FAQ)
    • MiniMax may apply dynamic rate limiting and tighten limits during peak traffic; no peak hours or timezone are published (M Plan FAQ)
    Models
    Works with
    • MiniMax Code
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Cursor
    • OpenCode
    • Pi
    • Hermes Agent
    • OpenClaw
    More details
    • Text model MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on all tiers; image and audio included on all tiers (M Plan page)
    • Video: Go does not include a video model; Explore and Build include H3 video, subject only to the weekly window (M Plan FAQ)
    • Annual billing: pay for 10 months and get 2 months free (M Plan FAQ); annual totals are not listed as amounts
    • Downgrades are not currently supported (M Plan FAQ)
    • Positioned by the FAQ for individual, interactive developer use; pay-as-you-go is recommended for production. The older Token Plan is closed to new purchases and is not recorded.
    Verified Source ↗M Plan FAQ ↗M Plan overview ↗Token Plan notice (closed to new purchases) ↗Buy on the official site
  • MiniMax

    M Plan Explore

    Coding planUsage multiplesOpaque: no published token or dollar conversion
    $55
    per month
    Limits
    Usage is measured relative to Go: Go is 1x, Explore is 3x and Build is 7.5x. Each tier has a 5-hour window and a weekly window; when a window ends, usage resets to the tier's full limit. Actual consumption varies with model, context length and task complexity. No token or dollar figures are published. Only relative multiples of Go are published; no conversion to tokens or dollars.
    Rules
    • Subscription key must be kept secret; do not commit it to a code repository (M Plan FAQ)
    • MiniMax may apply dynamic rate limiting and tighten limits during peak traffic; no peak hours or timezone are published (M Plan FAQ)
    Models
    Works with
    • MiniMax Code
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Cursor
    • OpenCode
    • Pi
    • Hermes Agent
    • OpenClaw
    More details
    • Explore includes the H3 video model, subject only to the weekly window (M Plan FAQ)
    • Image and audio included (M Plan page); annual billing is 10 months paid for 12 (M Plan FAQ)
    • Upgrade paths: monthly subscribers may upgrade on either billing period; annual subscribers only on annual billing (M Plan FAQ)
    • Video is included in this subscription tier, so it is not API-only for M Plan. Pay-as-you-go video is also sold through the API (see the MiniMax API entry).
    Verified Source ↗M Plan FAQ ↗Buy on the official site
  • MiniMax

    M Plan Build

    Coding planUsage multiplesOpaque: no published token or dollar conversion
    $132
    per month
    Limits
    Usage is measured relative to Go: Go is 1x, Explore is 3x and Build is 7.5x. Each tier has a 5-hour window and a weekly window; when a window ends, usage resets to the tier's full limit. Actual consumption varies with model, context length and task complexity. No token or dollar figures are published. Only relative multiples of Go are published; no conversion to tokens or dollars.
    Rules
    • Subscription key must be kept secret; do not commit it to a code repository (M Plan FAQ)
    • MiniMax may apply dynamic rate limiting and tighten limits during peak traffic; no peak hours or timezone are published (M Plan FAQ)
    Models
    Works with
    • MiniMax Code
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Cursor
    • OpenCode
    • Pi
    • Hermes Agent
    • OpenClaw
    More details
    • Build includes the H3 video model, subject only to the weekly window (M Plan FAQ)
    • Image and audio included (M Plan page); annual billing is 10 months paid for 12 (M Plan FAQ)
    • Video is included in this subscription tier, so it is not API-only for M Plan.
    Verified Source ↗M Plan FAQ ↗Buy on the official site
  • MiniMax

    MiniMax API (pay-as-you-go)

    API onlyPay per tokenClear quota
    Pay per use
    Limits
    Pay as you go, per million tokens, at the rates below. No subscription quota.
    API rates
    ModelInputOutputUnit and notes
    MiniMax M3$0.30$1.20per 1M tokens, Cached input $0.06

    Rates from OpenRouter, MiniMax's own endpoint, checked 2026-10-21

    Models
    More details
    • Video (pay-as-you-go, billed per second): MiniMax-H3 768P $0.08, 2K $0.13; MiniMax-H3-Max 480P $0.05, 768P $0.08; H3 regeneration 768P to 2K $0.05 per regenerated second
    • Video input images (H3): first 5 free, then $0.04 each; H3-Max: first 2 free, then $0.074 each
    • Speech (T2A, per 1M characters): speech-2.8-hd $100; speech-2.8-turbo $60; asynchronous long-form synthesis up to 1M characters per request
    • Voice design $3 per voice and rapid voice cloning $1.50 per voice, charged on first synthesis use
    • Speech-to-text (ASR) $0.38 per hour
    • Legacy per-video Hailuo models are also listed (for example MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3 768P 6s $0.28)
    • Video is not API-only: the M Plan Explore and Build subscriptions include H3 video. Video is priced per second in the API; text is priced per 1M tokens. MiniMax M3.1 Flash is listed on OpenRouter only as a free variant, so it has no paid rate here.
    Verified Source ↗Get an API key