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.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Recraft V4.1 Flash recraft/recraftv4-1-flash | MiniMax M3 minimax/m3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Recraft | MiniMax |
| Family | Recraft | MiniMax M |
| Modality | image | text |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | — | 4,096 tok |
| Released | 2026-10-14 | 2026-06-01 |
| Input price | $0.0070 /img | $0.300 /1M |
| Output price | — | $1.20 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Streaming | — | yes |
| Vision | — | — |
| JSON mode | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
Recraft V4.1 Flash is Recraft's fastest and lowest-cost image model, generating a 1K raster image in about 1.3 seconds with quality close to Recraft V4.1. Built for high-volume generation and rapid iteration, with strong results for photography, portraits, atmospheric scenes, mixed media, and logo concepts. It outputs raster images only and does not support styles.
MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.
# 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 Recraft V4.1 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
model="recraft/recraftv4-1-flash",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try MiniMax M3 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/m3",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)