DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs MiniMax-Text-01

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 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
456.1 B
Context
10,240,000
30d
3 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 MiniMax-Text-01
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 456.1 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM MiniMaxText01ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 10,240,000
Licence mit —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,315,560 2,675
Downloads all time 12.1 M 92 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-01-12
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $0.20
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $1.10
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $1.30
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 —
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 —
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 900,172
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
MiniMax-Text-01 $1.30

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 7.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 83 days (4 Aug – 25 Oct)

4.7 M3 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 MiniMax-Text-01

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
MiniMax-Text-01 · fp16 @ 10000K ctx 86,523.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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