AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — MiniMax
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a native multimodal mixture-of-experts model from MiniMax, generally available from October 19, 2026, aimed at agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. It takes text, image and video input, returns text, and has a context window of up to 1M tokens.
Model B — Meta
Muse Ember is Meta's smallest and most efficient model, released on November 9, 2026 on the Meta Model API and in Muse Code (model ID muse-ember-1.0), for high-volume agent work such as tool calls, coding subtasks, routing and extraction. It takes text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text.
| Property | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash | Muse Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 19, 2026 | Nov 9, 2026 |
| Developer | MiniMax | Meta |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | proprietary |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Parameters | ~428B total, ~23B activated (MoE) | — |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.15 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M tokens | $0.60 | $0.50 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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