MiniMax
Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.
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MiniMax vs DeepSeek
MiniMax (MiniMax) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. DeepSeek is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.. DeepSeek shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | MiniMax MiniMax | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | M3.1 Flash | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Entry cost | from $0.3/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · API input /M $0.3 · API output /M $1.2 | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | H3 · M2.5 · M2.7 · M3 · MiniMax Code · MiniMax H3 · MiniMax M2.5 · MiniMax M2.7 · MiniMax M3 · MiniMax M3.1 Flash · MiniMax Music 3.0 · MiniMax Speech 2.8 · MiniMax-M2.1 · Music 3.0 · Speech 2.8 | deepseek-flash · DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Context window | 1000000 | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 11 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Interleaved thinking, Tool calling, Open weights, Long context, Text Generation, Code Generation, Video Generation, Speech Generation | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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