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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Compare Claude Haiku 5.5 from Anthropic and MiniMax M3.1 Flash from Minimax on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s next-generation product, designed for high-throughput, cost-sensitive tasks. It can reliably handle fast and repetitive workloads such as summarization, context compression, database queries, and classification requests. It is also well suited to be used as a sub-agent model in programming workflows alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5.

Input$0.1 /M
Output$0.5 /M
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Minimax · text, image → text

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is MiniMax's latest flagship model, aimed at office automation, software engineering, visual reasoning, and professional analytics. It combines multi-step task execution with front-end and presentation-creation capabilities, supporting workflows that transform information and visual references into tangible deliverables.

Input$0.165 /M
Output$0.66 /M
Cache read$0.0165 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Haiku 5.5
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Input /M
$0.1
$0.165
Output /M
$0.5
$0.66
Cache read /M
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$0.0165
Context length
1,000,000
0
Max output
128,000
0
Time to First Token
0.6 s
1.7 s
Throughput
187.4 tok/s
107.6 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
API Formats
Released
October 8, 2026
October 19, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Claude Haiku 5.5
$13.50 /mo
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
$19.80 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Haiku 5.5, MiniMax M3.1 Flash?

Claude Haiku 5.5: $0.5/M output tokens; MiniMax M3.1 Flash: $0.66/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Claude Haiku 5.5: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Haiku 5.5 at 187.4 tok/s and MiniMax M3.1 Flash at 107.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts text and image input; MiniMax M3.1 Flash accepts text and image input.

Can I call Claude Haiku 5.5 and MiniMax M3.1 Flash with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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