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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-23.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash Meta: Muse Wonder
Vendorminimaxmeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.389.9
Input Price$0.15/M$4.00/M
Output Price$0.60/M$20.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output524,288943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index70.586.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.30 and Muse Wonder costs $9.00, so MiniMax M3.1 Flash is about 30.0 times cheaper for the same work.

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

Only Muse Wonder offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Muse Wonder leads 89.9 to 71.3.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores higher on 9 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others), Muse Wonder on 11 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others).

Pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash if you need lower cost; pick Muse Wonder if you need audio input or benchmark performance.

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

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 FlashMeta: Muse Wonder
SQL Generation 142 142
Code Review 145 148
Code Completion 133 116
Code Refactoring 147 149
Bug Fixing 149 152
Unit Test Generation 132 134
Code Documentation 138 135
Regex Writing 126 123
CI/CD Pipelines 128 130
Frontend Component Design 130 132
Data Analysis 134 137
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 137 140
JSON Extraction 131 119
Bulk Data Labeling 129 114
OCR / Document Parsing 134 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 135
Long-Document Summarization 149 149
Short-Form Summarization 127 115
Blog Post Writing 130 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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