MiniMax-M3.1-Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 23 October 2026.

MiniMaxAI · A · Open weights
Params
220.5 B
Context
—
30d
1 K
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00
AA index
47
proprietary · 1.0M context

Specification comparison

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Specification MiniMax-M3.1-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 220.5 B n/a — API-only
Architecture MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration n/a — API-only
Context length 1,048,576 1,050,000
Licence other Proprietary
Commercial use Unknown Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 1,096 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 1 K n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-10-17 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $4.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $20.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $24.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.015 $0.40
AA Intelligence Index 42.7 47
AA Coding Index — 77.4
AA Agentic Index — 50.2
Max output tokens 524,288 128,000
API providers 11 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash $0.75
GPT-5.6 Sol $24.00

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 32.0× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash · fp16 311.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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