$ diff deepseek-v4-flash minimax-m3
DeepSeek V4-Flash vs MiniMax M3
Values come from DeepSeek V4-Flash and MiniMax M3, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4-Flash
- context
- —
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.14
- $/M out
- $0.28
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.3
- $/M out
- $1.2
What actually differs
- Input price
- DeepSeek V4-Flash at $0.14/M against $0.3/M — 2.1× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4-Flash at $0.28/M against $1.2/M — 4.3× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — DeepSeek V4-Flash under MIT (open-weight), MiniMax M3 under Open-weight (HuggingFace). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- DeepSeek V4-Flash shipped 60 days after MiniMax M3 (2026-07-31 vs 2026-06-01).
Full spec
| Attribute | DeepSeek V4-Flash | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Released | 2026-07-31 | 2026-06-01 |
| Context window | not recorded | 1,000,000 tokens (1M); min. 512K guaranteed |
| Pricing | $0.14/M input (cache miss) · $0.0028/M input (cache hit) · $0.28/M output — see Conflicting Reports | $0.30/M input · $1.20/M output ($0.06/M cached input) — OpenRouter catalogue, read 2026-07-28 |
| License | MIT (open-weight) | Open-weight (HuggingFace) |
| Availability | DeepSeek API (Responses format, Codex-adapted), Hugging Face (`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731`) | API (global, including English) + open-weight on HuggingFace |