compare/MiniMax M3.1 FlashvsMiniMax H3 Highspeed

MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs MiniMax H3 Highspeed

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
MiniMax H3 Highspeed
minimax/h3-highspeed
ProviderMiniMaxMiniMax
FamilyMiniMax M
Modalitytextvideo
Context window1,000,000 tok—
Max output131,072 tok—
Released2026-10-222026-10-30
Input price$0.150 /1M$0.060 /sec
Output price$0.600 /1M—
Cache read——
Tools——
Streamingyes—
Vision——
JSON mode——
Reasoning——
Prompt caching——
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
Full spec →

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a fast, cost-efficient multimodal model for agentic tasks, coding, and computer use. It accepts text, image, and video input, always reasons before answering with adjustable effort, and has a 1M-token context window.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
MiniMax H3 Highspeed
minimax/h3-highspeed
Full spec →

A multimodal video generation model that balances quality and speed, supporting text-to-video, first and last frame image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation at 768P.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try MiniMax M3.1 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3.1-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try MiniMax H3 Highspeed — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/h3-highspeed",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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