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Vercel adds MiniMax M3.1 Flash AI model to AI Gateway, free until Oct 22

MiniMax's open-weight AI model for coding and agent work is free on Vercel AI Gateway until Oct 22, if MiniMax serves the request.

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Summary

Vercel AI Gateway now offers MiniMax M3.1 Flash, an open-weight multimodal AI model for coding and agentic work with a 1M-token context window. It is free until Oct 22 when MiniMax serves the request. After that, pinned requests bill at MiniMax's standard rate.

What changed

  • MiniMax M3.1 Flash is on AI Gateway for free until Oct 22.
  • The free rate applies only when MiniMax serves the request; set provider order in the gateway options.
  • After the offer ends, pinned requests bill at MiniMax's standard rate.
  • Model name is minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash, usable via the AI SDK, Chat Completions, Responses and Anthropic Messages APIs.
  • Coding agents connect by running npx vercel ai-gateway setup with the latest Vercel CLI.

Availability

Available now

“MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax is now available on AI Gateway for free until Oct 22.”

Founder takeaway

If you want to test a long-context coding model, try it through AI Gateway before Oct 22 and set the provider order so MiniMax serves the request. Check MiniMax's standard rate before leaving it in production.

Source

VercelMiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for free - Vercel

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