MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview: coding-only model quietly slipped into MiniMax Code
MiniMax's latest text model for everyday software development, shipped with no announcement, model card, benchmarks, or pricing; confirmed by MiniMax's official account on Sept 27 after developers spotted it in the MiniMax Code model picker. Available only inside MiniMax Code for now, with a free-credit promo running Sept 28 - Oct 7 (UTC+8).
Why it matters
A coding model released like a product feature: no announcement, no benchmarks, no price. MiniMax is A/B-testing a faster, cheaper M3 sibling on real users inside its own coding assistant - the sharpest signal yet of how fast China's coding-model race is moving.
What you could build with it
An indie hacker could build an independent coding-model benchmark on real-world tasks: MiniMax published zero numbers, so whoever measures M3.1-Flash-Preview against M3 and DeepSeek on public coding tasks owns the only comparison data.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge - confirmed by MiniMax only today, gated inside MiniMax Code with no benchmarks, pricing, or public API; real-world evidence is limited to developers spotting it in the model picker.
Learn more
First spotted on article: source.
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