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 In this video, I dive into MiniMax 2.1, the fresh version bump that turns a small, cheap model into an agentic coding beast, and I stack it up against Gemini Flash and the big boys.

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Key Takeaways:

🚀 MiniMax 2.1 keeps the same tiny price—$0.3 in / $1.2 out per million—yet jumps to 8th on agentic and 12th on non-agentic leaderboards.
💸 At 53 % on non-agentic it outscores Gemini 3.0 Flash (47 %) while costing half as much.
🎯 Agentic highlights: Go TUI calc, Godot game, and Minecraft Kandinsky clone all work in one shot.
❌ Still stumbles on Tauri, Nuxt, and some math, but beats Sonnet and ties pricey 4.1 Opus.
🔓 Open-weights, local-runnable, and landing publicly within 48 hours.
🛠️ Tested via Claude Code today; KiloCode interleaved-thinking support coming at launch.
👍 If you want cheap, fast, code-heavy agents, MiniMax 2.1 is the new bang-for-buck king.

Minimax M2.1 : RIP Gemini 3.0 FLASH! This is the BEST SMALL & CHEAP OPEN MODEL YET!