MiniMax M3.1 Flash Arrives With Free Ollama Cloud Access and Lower Token Prices

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MiniMax released its M3.1 Flash model on 19 October 2026, and Ollama is offering it at no cost until 22 October at 23:59 UTC, with OpenRouter's free tier ending earlier. After the promotion, pricing is listed at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, roughly half what the earlier MiniMax-M2.7 cost. The article explains how to connect Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode to the model, recommending it for routine worker tasks while keeping a frontier model for planning and review. It notes that MiniMax's speed and benchmark claims are self-reported, and independent results are more mixed, including a weak showing on hallucination resistance. Users are also warned that some integration issues remain.

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