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MiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for free

Vercel News·Zachary Chen·

from is now available on for free, until Oct 20.MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxAI Gateway

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 in the gateway . After the offer ends, pinned requests bill at MiniMax's standard rate.orderprovider options

Call it through the , the , , and APIs, or a connected to AI Gateway. Use as the model name:AI SDKChat CompletionsResponsesAnthropic Messagescoding agentminimax/minimax-m3.1-flash

To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:

Then select in the agent. See the for details.minimax/minimax-m3.1-flashcoding agents guide

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 , , , , and more.custom reportingZero Data Retention supportbudgets for API keysrouting rules

AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on (BYOK) requests.Bring Your Own Key

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