minimax-m3 vs deepseek-r1
Side-by-side comparison of minimax-m3 and deepseek-r1: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. minimax-m3 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
minimax-m3
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$1.20
Context
1M
Model ID
minimaxi/minimax-m3
deepseek-r1
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$4.00
Context
64K
Model ID
novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
minimax-m354.7%
deepseek-r127.1%
Coding Indexcoding
minimax-m343.4%
deepseek-r124.0%
Math Indexmath
minimax-m3N/A
deepseek-r176.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
minimax-m392.9%
deepseek-r181.3%
AIME 2025math
minimax-m3N/A
deepseek-r176.0%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
minimax-m3N/A
deepseek-r177.0%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
minimax-m342.4%
deepseek-r115.9%
τ²-Benchagentic
minimax-m388.9%
deepseek-r136.5%
SciCodecoding
minimax-m345.4%
deepseek-r140.3%
MMLU Proknowledge
minimax-m3N/A
deepseek-r184.9%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
minimax-m337.1%
deepseek-r114.9%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| minimax-m3 | deepseek-r1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $0.30 | $4.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $1.20 | $4.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 64K tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens | N/A |
| Vision input | Yes | N/A |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | N/A |
| Prompt caching | Yes | N/A |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | MiniMax | Novita AI |
Questions people ask
Is minimax-m3 better than deepseek-r1?
minimax-m3 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: minimax-m3 and deepseek-r1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, minimax-m3 or deepseek-r1?
minimax-m3 is cheaper. minimax-m3 costs $0.30/$1.20 per 1M input/output tokens, while deepseek-r1 costs $4.00/$4.00.
Can I use minimax-m3 and deepseek-r1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "minimaxi/minimax-m3" and "novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
minimax-m3 supports up to 1M tokens of context. deepseek-r1 supports up to 64K tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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