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MiniMax launched M3.1 Flash with API rates of $0.15 / $0.60 per million tokens. A practical evaluation plan for support, CRM and coding workflows.

Opus 5.5 cuts token and cache costs, but changes thinking, tool selection and conversation handling. Validate the integration first, then measure cost per completed task.

Grok 4.7 builds on 4.6. Migration needs attention to the 200k-token pricing threshold, caching and preservation of encrypted reasoning history.

GLM-5.3-Flash combines public MIT weights, native vision, a 1M-token context window, and much lower API pricing. For companies, it is a credible primary-worker candidate for verifiable coding, document, and multimodal workflows.

Kimi K3 targets the same territory as Claude Fable 5 and GPT‑5.6 Sol: 1M context, long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work. It is not a finished replacement, but its planned open weights make it worth a measured pilot.