DeepSeek R1 0528 vs MiniMax M1
Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, in 6 community votes, deepseek r1 0528 wins 80% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 164K vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 0528 or MiniMax M1?
DeepSeek R1 0528 is the better choice overall, winning 80% of 6 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $0.3/M for MiniMax M1. Context windows: 164K vs 1000K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 0528 and MiniMax M1
DeepSeek R1 0528 is made by deepseek while MiniMax M1 is from minimax. DeepSeek R1 0528 has a 164K token context window compared to MiniMax M1's 1000K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $0.3/M for MiniMax M1. In community voting, In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 80% of head-to-head duels.
In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 80% of head-to-head duels. DeepSeek R1 0528 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 6+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Pick DeepSeek R1 0528. In 6 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 80% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek R1 0528 particularly excels in Image Generation.
Style Comparison
MiniMax M1 uses 10.4x more emoji
