Measuring MiniMax M3.1 Flash's Five Effort Levels on One Bug Fix

说明与用途

测量 MiniMax M3.1 Flash 在单个错误修复上的五个努力级别显示，默认（omitted）使用最大努力，产生 6,364 个思考令牌，56 秒，$0.0045。低级别使用 591 个令牌，9.5 秒，$0.0006，质量不变。

问题

Code migrated from MiniMax M2.x never set an effort level, causing the model to run at the most expensive setting by default.

结果

All effort levels produced perfect bug‑fix code. The default (omitted) level used 6,364 thinking tokens, 56 s, and $0.0045 per fix. The low level used 591 tokens, 9.5 s, and $0.0006, a 7× cost reduction with no loss in quality.

工作流

• Set up OpenAI client with AIHubMix endpoint
• Read bug‑fix prompt from file
• Iterate over effort levels [None, low, medium, high, xhigh, max]
• For each level run three trials: send request with or without reasoning_effort field
• Measure time, completion tokens, reasoning tokens
• Print results
• Aggregate averages for each level

证据

We ran the same two‑bug fix through MiniMax M3.1 Flash at all five effort levels plus "omitted", three runs each, and graded every answer against 215 hidden tests. Every run passed.

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The omitted default, which MiniMax documents as <code>max</code>, averaged 6,364 thinking tokens, 56 seconds, and $0.0045 per fix.

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Set <code>low</code> explicitly and move up per task.

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