MiniMax M3.1 Flash in practice: tests and comparisons with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Local inference project Project Maya now has the MiniMax-M3.1-Flash DSpark drafter read the whole conversation, making answers up to 1.5x faster with identical output, alongside a new web UI and AMD/MI50 support.

Local deployment: Maya-XS (93 GB) keeps every expert and Maya-S (122 GB) stays closest to the original, running on V100+ NVIDIA, Strix Halo and llama.cpp, plus a new loop guard against repeating answers.

Local deployment tool Project Maya v1.1.29 officially supports MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, and GGUF quantized builds are already available.

Unsloth published quantized GGUF builds for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash; the 2-bit version shrinks size by 45% while keeping 91.5% top-1 and runs in 150GB of RAM, with a deployment guide.

The author measured MiniMax M3.1 Flash in MiniMax Mcode at roughly 800 tok/s, suspects a display error, and asks others what speeds they get.

A user says signing up on MiniMax's site and installing MiniMax Code yields 400 credits per day, and M3.1 Flash with 1M context and the harness works great.

A user bought the $11/month Go plan and installed MiniMax Code, praising its local/cloud toggle and phone remote control, and will decide after a month whether to switch to API access for M3.1 Flash.

A developer built Repro: it records console, network and clicks, has M3.1 Flash on Nebius write the bug report, reproduces in the signed-in browser, proposes a fix and verifies it in Docker; a real store bug reproduced in 2 steps with a 1-file fix.

A user works around Antigravity's lack of custom model support, demoing with MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and notes remote PC control without using Gemini subscription quota.

A token-billing fingerprint from 50 odd strings covers 353 models and 72 fingerprints; the author says Space Bunny was matched to MiniMax 26 days before MiniMax confirmed it.

Running a competitive-landscape prompt in WorkBuddy, the model cleared 7GB of disk then planned searches; the author credits cheap model plus heavy orchestration.

After testing stealth Space Bunny on OpenRouter (10 days at #1), the author ran mcode init/exec with full permissions on a 400+ note vault: entity pages, wikilinks, index and action log at 170+ tok/s, with a manual diff review passing.