DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MiniMax M2.5
Updated October 21, 2026. 4 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores 37.6 and MiniMax M2.5 59.4 on the Vibe Coding Index, but no coding benchmark measured both, so the gap is directional, not a ranking.
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp when output tokens cost 1.5x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 205K tokens.
- Shared results
- 4
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp only
- 10
- MiniMax M2.5 only
- 63
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
No call
37.6 against 59.4, from different benchmarks with none in common.
Directional only
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads, 34.8 against 22.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has a AA Agentic Index result, 47.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only MiniMax M2.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 82.1%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only MiniMax M2.5 has a AIME result, 88.8%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only MiniMax M2.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 80.1%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only MiniMax M2.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1222.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp takes 1.05M tokens against 205K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.0005, MiniMax M2.5 $0.0007 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only MiniMax M2.5 has the number, $0.62.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 37.6 from 1 benchmark, MiniMax M2.5 59.4 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 12.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run): DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 34.5% against MiniMax M2.5 20.5%, 14.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.6468 against MiniMax M2.5 $0.95 per million output tokens, 1.5x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp takes 1.05M tokens, MiniMax M2.5 205K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Bars | MiniMax M2.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlyFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 75.8% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | Not measured | 68.3% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LiveBench coding | 37.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1386 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 65.0 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.2% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 74.2% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.8% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| SciCode | 49.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 34.8% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 42.7% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 618.2 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1380 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1383 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1374 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1414 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 34.8 | 22.8 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 146.6 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 47.5 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveBench research | 69.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveBench browser | 64.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 39.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 95.3% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | -$23 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 82.1% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 85.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.3% | 84.8% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.5% | 20.5% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 63.7% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 4.9% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1372 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1378 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1384 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 88.8% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 4.0% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1378 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1378 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 80.1% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.0% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.5% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.6% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.2% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.5% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1369 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1357 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1366 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1356 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1222 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1172 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1176 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1171 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1170 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1207 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1147 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 70.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 71.6% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 81.3% | 73.3% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 11.4% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 6.3% | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1359 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1353 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1331 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1380 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1338 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1393 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1361 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1171 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1233 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1363 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1353 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1359 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1334 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1364 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1366 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1345 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1329 | Only MiniMax M2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | August 21, 2026 | February 12, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 205K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.2156 | $0.27 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.6468 | $0.95 |
| Coding index | 37.6 | 59.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.62 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp better than MiniMax M2.5 for coding?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores 37.6 and MiniMax M2.5 59.4 on the Vibe Coding Index, but no coding benchmark measured both, so the gap is directional, not a ranking. Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp when output tokens cost 1.5x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 205K tokens.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or MiniMax M2.5?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.2156 per million input tokens and $0.6468 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.27 and $0.95. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M2.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or MiniMax M2.5?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MiniMax M2.5 comparison based on?
4 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and MiniMax M2.5's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.