DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MiniMax M3
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads MiniMax M3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 34.8 to 29.2, at about the same output price ($1.32 vs $1.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or MiniMax M3: which to pick
Only MiniMax M3 has a coding score, 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp for work measured by AA Coding Index or SciCode, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 14
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp only
- 0
- MiniMax M3 only
- 102
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads, 34.8 against 29.2.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads, 47.5 against 29.5.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has a MMLU Pro result, 84.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1257.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1.05M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M3
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.0011, MiniMax M3 $0.0009 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has the number, $0.56.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp not benchmarked, MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 25.5 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LiveBench browser: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 64.0% against MiniMax M3 8.0%, 56.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $1.32 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 1.05M tokens.
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 M3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 4 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 2 | ||
| Web design | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 10 | 4 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index21
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 37.6% | 70.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1482 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 65.0 | 58.6 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 1.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 19.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SciCode | 49.7% | 47.1% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 42.4% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 14.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 640.0 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1470 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1466 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1478 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1470 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 34.8 | 29.2 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 146.9 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 47.5 | 29.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1200 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1197 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1169 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1159 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1158 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1130 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1181 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1028 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench research | 69.2% | 68.0% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| LiveBench browser | 64.0% | 8.0% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| LiveBench long agentic | 39.0% | 12.4% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 48.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 29.8% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.8% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 88.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 37.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Not measured | 4.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $2,158 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 92.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 85.4% | 74.5% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.3% | 92.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.5% | 39.0% | MiniMax M3 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 90.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 45.8% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 13.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 8.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1447 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1461 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1266 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1268 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 71.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 18.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1429 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1448 | Only MiniMax M3 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 M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 84.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.4% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.4% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1452 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1441 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1437 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1434 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1257 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1242 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1210 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1236 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1208 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1247 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1161 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1161 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench design | 70.7% | 66.2% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.5% | 76.2% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 60.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 82.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 81.3% | 83.0% | MiniMax M3 |
| DTBench | Not measured | 78.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 33.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 55.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1404 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1251 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1443 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1420 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1466 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1428 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1380 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1373 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1444 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1426 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1423 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1443 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1446 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1419 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1403 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1263 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1311 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1259 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1235 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1197 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1234 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1435 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | MiniMax M3 | 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
MiniMax M3 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiniMax M3 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiniMax M3 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 M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | August 21, 2026 | May 31, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.44 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.32 | $1.20 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 39.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 6 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.56 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp better than MiniMax M3 for coding?
Only MiniMax M3 has a coding score, 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp for work measured by AA Coding Index or SciCode, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or MiniMax M3?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.44 per million input tokens and $1.32 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or MiniMax M3?
Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and MiniMax M3's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.