AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, released on October 17, 2026, that DeepSeek says scores higher on its benchmarks, finishes tasks faster and writes shorter outputs. It takes text and image input and is served on the DeepSeek API as deepseek-flash, with open weights under the MIT License.
Model B — MiniMax
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a native multimodal mixture-of-experts model from MiniMax, generally available from October 19, 2026, aimed at agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. It takes text, image and video input, returns text, and has a context window of up to 1M tokens.
| Property | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | ~428B total, ~23B activated (MoE) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.30 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M tokens | $1.20 | $0.60 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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