Meta: Muse Ember vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Ember costs $0.23 and MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.30, so Muse Ember is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Ember offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Muse Ember leads 56.7 to 44.4.

Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Muse Ember scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Muse Ember was released in November 2026 and MiniMax M3.1 Flash in October 2026.

Pick Muse Ember if you need lower cost, audio input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.