Model comparisons

InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017/vs/minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs from $0.082 per million tokens and MiniMax M3.1 Flash from $0.13 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on 15 November 2026.

Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash: API prices

Model	QualityrankQuality rank from public evaluations. 1 = best.	CoderankCoding quality rank from public evaluations. 1 = best.	Blended$/1MLowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column.	Input$/1MInput price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens	Output$/1MOutput price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens	No training$/1MThe provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves.	Monthly cost$ · 1K req/dayFor 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload.	Offers	Providers	ContextThe maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, DeepSeekat Sail Research via OpenRouter	Not rankedNot ranked in this quality board	Not rankedNot ranked in this quality board	$0.082Most expensive offer · $0.99. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column	$0.073, most favourable value of the column	$0.11, most favourable value of the column	$0.15at DeepInfra, most favourable value of the column	$5.98, most favourable value of the columnat Sail Research via OpenRouter	156	78, most favourable value of the column	1M
MiniMax M3.1 Flash, MiniMaxat Inferact vLLM via OpenRouterInferact vLLM	Not rankedNot ranked in this quality board	Not rankedNot ranked in this quality board	$0.13 Most expensive offer · $0.58. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted.	$0.075	$0.30	$0.20at EmpirioLabs AI	$9.00at Inferact vLLM via OpenRouter	59	36	1M

Green background: the most favourable value of each column.