DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs MiniMax-M2.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
158.1 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.2 M
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-V4-Flash | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 158.1 B | 228.7 B |
| Architecture | DeepseekV4ForCausalLM | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 1,048,576 | 196,608 |
| Licence | mit | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,151,336 | 1,202,828 |
| Downloads all time | 13.7 M | 6.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-22 | 2026-02-12 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.091 | $0.30 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.18 | $1.20 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.27 | $1.50 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.018 | $0.06 |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | — |
| AA Coding Index | 56.2 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 22.2 | — |
| Max output tokens | 943,717 | 58,982 |
| API providers | 13 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
$0.27
MiniMax-M2.5
$1.50
DeepSeek-V4-Flash is 5.5× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.3 M272 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
MiniMax-M2.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
1,076.9 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-V4-Flash · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
3,211.0 GB / 24 GB