In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- MiniMax-M3 is cheaper per output token: $1.20 against $3.96 per million tokens, so DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 costs 3.3 times as much.
- Both can be downloaded and run on your own machine.
- On the 1 independent board that rank both, MiniMax-M3 places higher on 1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on 0.
Side by side
The specs.
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 | MiniMax-M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | DeepSeek · China | MiniMax · China |
| Released | Aug 13, 2026 | Not stated |
| Price per 1M tokens | $1.32 in / $3.96 out (peak-hours price) | $0.30 in / $1.20 out |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Takes in | text | text |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (MIT) | Yes (minimax-community (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) |
| Size | 1.6T parameters, 49B active | ~428B parameters, ~23B active |
| Maker says | — | “MiniMax-M3 is a native multimodal model with 1M context.” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
Position on each board we follow (1 is best). Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown; the other boards are linked for their own figures.
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