While MiniMax’s price cuts lower the floor, agentic workflows often require recursive calls that can quickly erase raw token savings. You must shift your unit economics tracking to "cost per successful task" to determine if a cheaper model actually improves your margins. This prevents you from scaling on a model that requires expensive retries to maintain reliability.

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