DeepSeek R1 vs MiniMax M1
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, in 2 community votes, minimax m1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 2 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.3/M for MiniMax M1. Context windows: 128K vs 1000K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and MiniMax M1
DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while MiniMax M1 is from minimax. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window compared to MiniMax M1's 1000K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.3/M for MiniMax M1. In community voting, In 2 community votes, MiniMax M1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 2 community votes, MiniMax M1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 2+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 1.8× input, 1.3× output
Pick MiniMax M1. In 2 blind votes, MiniMax M1 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek R1 uses 8.7x more transitions
