MiniMax M3.1 Flash Now Available on AI Gateway for Free
Vercel offers MiniMax M3.1 Flash free through Oct 22—a 1M-context agentic model worth benchmarking before billing kicks in.
- 01MiniMax M3.1 Flash, an open-weight multimodal model with a one-million-token context window, is temporarily free on Vercel's AI Gateway.
- 02It targets multi-step agentic workflows, computer-use tasks, and frontend coding—including bug fixes and component testing.
- 03Access runs through standard APIs and coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code.
- 04After October 22, standard MiniMax rates apply.
Vercel offers MiniMax M3.1 Flash free through Oct 22—a 1M-context agentic model worth benchmarking before billing kicks in.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash, an open-weight multimodal model with a one-million-token context window, is temporarily free on Vercel's AI Gateway. It targets multi-step agentic workflows, computer-use tasks, and frontend coding—including bug fixes and component testing. Access runs through standard APIs and coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code. After October 22, standard MiniMax rates apply. Vercel's gateway adds no markup on inference, making the cost comparison straightforward once the promotion ends.
Action: Pin requests to the MiniMax provider before Oct 22 using the gateway's `order` option to guarantee free-tier routing during the trial window.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax is now available on AI Gateway for free until Oct 22. MiniMax M3.1 Flash is an open-weight multimodal model for coding and agentic work, with a 1M-token context window for long documents and multi-step agent sessions. Compared with earlier MiniMax models, M3.1 Flash improves on complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. On the agent side, that covers multi-step business processes and computer use that carries a task from one application to the next.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax is now available on AI Gateway for free until Oct 22. MiniMax M3.1 Flash is an open-weight multimodal model for coding and agentic work, with a 1M-token context window for long documents and multi-step agent sessions. Compared with earlier MiniMax models, M3.1 Flash improves on complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. On the agent side, that covers multi-step business processes and computer use that carries a task from one application to the next. For coding, MiniMax reports its best results on application development, particularly frontend interactions, targeted bug fixes, and component tests. The free rate applies only when MiniMax serves the request. To make sure it does, sort the provider with order in the gateway provider options. After the offer ends, pinned requests bill at MiniMax's standard rate. Call it through the AI SDK, the Chat Completions, Responses, and Anthropic Messages APIs, or a coding agent connected to AI Gateway. Use minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash as the model name: To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup: npx vercel ai-gateway setup Then select minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash in the agent. See the coding agents guide for details. Try MiniMax M3.1 Flash in the model playground. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, routing rules, and more. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests. You can view all language models available on AI Gateway.
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