Is MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 cheaper?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper on output tokens ($1.00 vs $1.20 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3?

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 has the larger context window (197K tokens).

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper on output tokens, while MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 offers a larger context window. Choose MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
Provider	SiliconFlow	SiliconFlow
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30	$0.25
Output / 1M tokens	$1.20	$1.00
Context window	197K	164K
Parameters	—	671B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Feb 2026	Dec 2024

MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 details →deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 details →

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