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MythoMax 13B vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.
MythoMax 13B is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.
MythoMax 13B does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
minimax
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- Blended / 1M
- $0.262
- Context
- 1.0M
- Released
- Oct 19, 2026
- Overall score
- 66.9
Specs and pricing
| Metric | MythoMax 13B | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench overall Weighted mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better. | — | 66.9 |
| Cost per point Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability. | — | $0.0015 |
| Blended price / 1M 3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic. | $0.087win | $0.262 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.080win | $0.150 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.110win | $0.600 |
| Cached input / 1M Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one. | — | $0.015 |
| Context window | 8K | 1.0Mwin |
| Max output tokens | 4K | 524Kwin |
Benchmarks by category
An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — MythoMax 13B on top, MiniMax M3.1 Flash below, both out of 100.
What each one costs to run
Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.
| Workload | MythoMax 13B | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $28.00/mo | $74.28/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $70.60/mo | $102.00/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $72.80/mo | $92.40/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $88.25/mo | $188.25/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $211.00/mo | $367.50/mo |
Which should you pick?
You need to fit large documents in one call
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Wider context window — 1.0M against 8K.
You are cost-constrained
MythoMax 13B
Cheaper on blended list price at $0.087 per million tokens.
MythoMax 13B vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash FAQ
Which is better, MythoMax 13B or MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
MythoMax 13B is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. MythoMax 13B does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
Is MythoMax 13B cheaper than MiniMax M3.1 Flash?
MythoMax 13B is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, MythoMax 13B lists at $0.087 per million tokens and MiniMax M3.1 Flash at $0.262 — MythoMax 13B is 3.0× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — MythoMax 13B charges $0.080 in and $0.110 out, MiniMax M3.1 Flash charges $0.150 and $0.600 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.
Does MythoMax 13B or MiniMax M3.1 Flash have a bigger context window?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash has the larger context window: 8K for MythoMax 13B against 1.0M for MiniMax M3.1 Flash. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.
Do MythoMax 13B and MiniMax M3.1 Flash support prompt caching?
MiniMax M3.1 Flash publishes a cached-input rate of $0.015 per million tokens against a full input rate of $0.150. The catalogue lists no separate cached rate for MythoMax 13B, which means the provider does not price it separately here — not that caching is unavailable.
Related comparisons
How these numbers are produced
- Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores — LiveBench release 2026-10-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
- “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.
Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.