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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	deepseek	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	57.7	47.2
Input Price	$0.22/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	57.5	48.2

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	140	139
Code Review	142	141
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	145	143
Bug Fixing	146	145
Unit Test Generation	130	129
Code Documentation	137	136
Regex Writing	125	124
CI/CD Pipelines	126	125
Frontend Component Design	128	127
Data Analysis	132	131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	136	135
ETL Scripting	136	134
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	129	129
OCR / Document Parsing	133	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	133	133
Long-Document Summarization	147	145
Short-Form Summarization	126	126
Blog Post Writing	128	127

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →