Wiring MiniMax M3.1 Flash under Opus 5.5 as a cheap executor at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M
The author plans three uses for M3.1 Flash: a 30-step scraping executor, first-pass PR review and overnight research runs, citing 76.2 BankerToolBench, 73.7 DeepSWE and 170+ tok/s.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is the Flash-tier model I've been hunting for to run under Opus 5.5 without blowing the agent bill the three spots I'm wiring it into this week: > executor on my 30-step scraping loop 76.2 on BankerToolBench, holds the thread across files > first pass on PRs before I pay Opus to review 73.7 on DeepSWE, right next to the frontier > overnight worker in my research vault, chews through 40 pages while I sleep 62.2 on Automation-Bench, ahead of everyone in the chart at $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M and 170+ tokens a second, a weekend-long agent run still fits in a lunch tab turns out Space Bunny - the stealth model that's been eating leaderboards - was M3.1 Flash the whole time
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