Alternatives to

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash and what to use instead

For summarising documents cheaply, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash scores – and costs $0.78 per 1,000 summaries. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.

Cheaper at similar quality

At least 30% cheaper and within 5 points.

Nothing we track fits this today.

Better at a similar price

At least 5 points stronger and no more than 20% dearer.

Nothing we track fits this today.

Open weights you can host

Ranked by value: quality for the money.

Nothing we track fits this today.

Scores are provisional (Arena and Epoch AI) and prices are list prices. Rankings never take money into account. Thresholds are in the methodology.

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