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Run MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on Lium

MiniMax · Vision and text · 220.5B parameters · 250.1 GB 8-bit weights · released 2026-10-17
It needs about 301 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 8x L40S (384 GB), from $4.24 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

8x Quadro RTX 8000384 GBreference $1.68 / hourRequest

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash:
vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash --tensor-parallel-size 8
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does MiniMax-M3.1-Flash need?

About 250.1 GB for the released 8-bit weights, so plan on 301 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.

What GPU should I rent to run MiniMax-M3.1-Flash?

8x L40S (384 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $4.24 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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