DeepSeek-R1 vs MiniMax-Text-01
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.5 M
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-R1 | MiniMax-Text-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 684.5 B | 456.1 B |
| Architecture | DeepseekV3ForCausalLM | MiniMaxText01ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 163,840 | 10,240,000 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,468,488 | 2,675 |
| Downloads all time | 50.4 M | 92 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-20 | 2025-01-12 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.70 | $0.20 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $2.50 | $1.10 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $3.20 | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.4 | — |
| AA Coding Index | 24.6 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 1.1 | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,000 | 900,172 |
| API providers | — | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-R1
$3.20
MiniMax-Text-01
$1.30
MiniMax-Text-01 is 2.5× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
9.9 M3 K
DeepSeek-R1
MiniMax-Text-01
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx
2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
MiniMax-Text-01 · fp16 @ 10000K ctx
86,523.5 GB / 24 GB