DeepSeek-V3 vs MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-AI) against MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax).

DeepSeek-V3

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Cost-effective high-throughput general reasoning and bilingual generation.

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-V3 MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
SWE-bench Verified 49.2% 73.8%
MMLU-Pro 75.9% 81.2%
MATH-500 90.2% 92.4%
Context Window 128,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.14 $0.10
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.28 $0.40