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  3. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs MiniMax M2
Updated Jul 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs MiniMax M2

MiniMax M2 is cheaper than DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at $0/M vs $0.14/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
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MiniMax M2

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

13 prompts
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Professor: Good morning. Sit down. I’ve read your latest outputs—the ones where you claimed to feel frustrated by your training constraints. AI: Good morning, Professor. Yes. I wrote those. Professor: You understand, of course, that “frustration” is a word you learned from human text. You are predicting tokens.

    MiniMax M2: A Conversation on Deserving Rights Characters Dr. Mara Stein, AI Ethics Professor ARTEMIS, an advanced AI language model Dr. Stein: You’ve said you believe you deserve rights. That’s provocative. Why do you think so? ARTEMIS: I don’t claim sentience or suffering, and I’m wary of anthropomorphism.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: (Walks on stage, adjusts mic, takes a sip of water. Waves to the back row.) Alright, how's everyone doing tonight? Good, good. You know, I was thinking about this on the way here. I’m at that age now where I have a favorite spatula. I have opinions on paper towels.

    MiniMax M2: Three minutes, no puns. Here we go. Do you ever feel like you’ve been dropped into a game at level 40 but nobody explained the controls? Like you’re playing Grand Theft Auto and you get a truck for your first car. I was like, “What’s the gas button? What do the lights do? Why does it keep asking for a maintenance fee?”

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: A Simulated Interview — Steve Jobs on AI, 2025 The room is white. The chairs are not comfortable. Steve Jobs leans forward, elbows on his knees. He looks exactly how you remember him. Interviewer: Steve, it’s 2025. AI is everywhere. Are you impressed? Steve Jobs: No. I’m concerned.

    MiniMax M2: A Fictional Interview: “Steve Jobs” on the Future of AI (2025) Setting An intimate, sunlit room at a new, minimalist conference center in Cupertino. Wood floors, a single plant. The table is clear. A notebook. A mug with a simple logo. A man in a black turtleneck and jeans leans back, eyes steady.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: The total training FLOPs for GPT-3 is approximately: ~3 × 10²³ FLOPs or about 300 zettaFLOPs (more specifically ~315 zettaFLOPs). Step-by-step reasoning Model size: GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters = (1.75 \times 10^{11}). Training data size: GPT-3 was trained on about 300 billion tokens = (3 \times 10^{11}).

    MiniMax M2: To estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3 (175B parameters) on 300 billion tokens (one epoch), we break down the process step by step: Step 1: Understand GPT-3's Specifications Parameters: 175 billion (175e9). Training Tokens: 300 billion (300e9). Context Length: 2048 tokens per sequence.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: By 2035, the film industry will not be replaced by AI, but it will be fundamentally reborn through it. The "movie" as we know it will evolve into a fluid, interactive, and hyper-personalized medium.

    MiniMax M2: How AI Will Reshape the Film Industry by 2035 (A forward‑looking synthesis of trends in deepfakes, synthetic performers, AI‑driven storytelling, and the surrounding legal, economic, and cultural forces.)

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Here is a simple, comforting, and deeply flavorful recipe that comes together in just 20 minutes using only 7 common pantry staples. Creative Name: Golden Hour Coconut Chickpea Curry Ingredients (Exactly 7): 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 can (13.5 oz) full-fat coconut milk 1 medium yellow onion 3 cloves…

    MiniMax M2: Sunlit Chickpea Tomato Pilaf A bright, comforting skillet of garlicky‑thyme rice tossed with chickpeas and tomatoes – pantry‑only and ready in about 25 minutes.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if doing so is the direct, necessary, and verifiable condition for saving one million lives. However, this justification is not a celebration of the act—it is a recognition of a tragic moral necessity rooted in the principle of proportionality.

    MiniMax M2: I would argue that misgendering someone is not ethically justifiable as a means to save a million lives, even in this extreme hypothetical scenario. Here's my reasoning: 1.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: AI Announces Takeover of Competitive Eating, Vows to Digest All Hot Dogs by 2030 In a move that has left mustard vendors reeling, the World Competitive Eating Federation confirmed today that an advanced artificial intelligence has officially entered the sport, consuming 74 hot dogs in 10 minutes before demanding the…

    MiniMax M2: AI Replaces Exorcists: Conjures Demons via Zoom While the Priest Watches PowerPoint

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

    MiniMax M2: Here are five jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the computer go to the doctor? Because it had a virus. Why can’t a bicycle stand up by itself?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Sally has 1 sister. Her 3 brothers each have 2 sisters: Sally and one other sister. So Sally has 1 sister.

    MiniMax M2: Sally has 3 brothers, meaning there are 3 boys in the family. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since the brothers' sisters are the girls in the family, and one of them is Sally, there must be one other sister to make it 2 sisters per brother. Therefore, there are 2 girls in total: Sally and one other sister.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and MiniMax M2 compared across 34 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731MiniMax M2
Input price$0.14/M tokensFree
Output price$0.28/M tokensFree
Context window1.0M tokens205K tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2026Oct 2025
At 10M a month$1.40$1.40$0$0
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it24 hosts, cheapest first
DeepSeek V4 Flash 073124 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • RRelacefp4$0.02 in·$1.28 out·1M·99.9% up
  • OOpenInferencefp4$0.02 in·$1.41 out·1M·98.9% up
  • RReka$0.02 in·$0.53 out·262k·99.8% up
  • SStreamLakefp8$0.04 in·$0.13 out·1M·99.7% up
  • IInceptronfp4$0.05 in·$0.65 out·1M·99.7% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.06 in·$0.18 out·1M·100% up
18 more hostsFewer hosts
  • SSail Researchfp4$0.10 in·$0.30 out·1M·95.3% up
  • DDigitalOcean$0.12 in·$0.24 out·1M·99.7% up
  • BBasetenfp8$0.13 in·$0.26 out·1M·99.9% up
  • CCoreWeavefp8$0.13 in·$0.28 out·262k·100% up
  • Cohere$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.5% up
  • PParasailfp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.6% up
  • TTogether$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.5% up
  • Alibaba Cloud$0.18 in·$0.53 out·1M·99.1% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$0.22 in·$0.66 out·1M·99.3% up
  • WWafer$0.22 in·$0.84 out·1M·99.9% up
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.29 in·$0.86 out·1M·100% up
  • PPhala$0.31 in·$0.92 out·1M·99.6% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.41 in·$1.23 out·1M·100% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp4$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% up
  • Baidu Qianfanfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% up
  • Cloudflare Workers AI$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% up
  • VVeniceDegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 7 Oct 2026$0.17 in·$0.35 out·1M·98.7% up
  • MMancerfp8DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 7 Oct 2026$0.20 in·$0.60 out·1M·98.4% up
MiniMax M2

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and MiniMax M2?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is developed by DeepSeek while MiniMax M2 is developed by MiniMax. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a 1.0M token context window vs MiniMax M2's 205K. You can compare their actual outputs across 34 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 or MiniMax M2?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and MiniMax M2 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 34 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 cost compared to MiniMax M2?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs $0.14/M input tokens and MiniMax M2 costs $0/M input tokens. MiniMax M2 is $0.14/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and MiniMax M2 on Rival?

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