DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs MiniMax-M2.1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4.3 M
mit · commercial OK
MiniMaxAI · B · Open weights
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
12 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 MiniMax-M2.1
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 228.7 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 196,608
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 11,542
Downloads all time 11.9 M 505 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-12-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $0.30
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $1.50
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 $0.03
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 20.9
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 131,072
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
MiniMax-M2.1 $1.50

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 8.4× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 82 days (4 Aug – 24 Oct)

4.7 M11 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 MiniMax-M2.1

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

MiniMax-M2.1 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,076.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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