DeepSeek-R1 vs MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI) against MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax).

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

Developed by MiniMax · Proprietary Sparse Coding MoE parameters

Low-latency interactive IDE code completions at 165 tokens/sec, SWE-bench Verified bug fixes (73.8%), terminal automation, and budget-optimized pull request reviews.

Metric DeepSeek-R1 MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
SWE-bench Verified 49.2% 73.8%
MMLU-Pro 84% 81.2%
MATH-500 97.3% 92.4%
Context Window 128,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.55 $0.10
Output Pricing (per 1M) $2.19 $0.40