Moonshot's K3.1 Pro has the same 2.8 trillion parameters as the Kimi K3 I wrote about in July. Nothing about the model changed; everything about how it performs did. Here's what that means for the work you hand to AI — including the part nobody mentions: a 33% price cut doesn't lower your bill.
MiniMax shipped M3.1 Flash on October 19 at $0.15 per million input tokens, and it leads the low-cost tier on AutomationBench-AA — the benchmark for multi-step business workflows across SaaS tools. Six days later, Artificial Analysis measured a 93% hallucination rate on the same model. Both numbers are true. Together they define exactly which marketing jobs to hand it and which to keep away from it.
