# DeepSeek Chat vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash - AI Model Comparison

- Page: https://opencode.ai/data/compare/deepseek/deepseek-chat/minimax/minimax-m3-1-flash
- Updated: 2026-10-19T22:53:58.000Z

|  | DeepSeek Chat | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 384K | 512K |
| Input modalities | text | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Release date | 2025-12-01 | 2026-10-19 |
| Input price per 1M tokens | $0.32 | $0.15 |
| Output price per 1M tokens | $0.89 | $0.60 |
| Cached input price per 1M tokens | - | $0.01 |
| OpenCode tokens: past 2 months | 0 | 155T |
| Share of all tokens | 0% | 15% |
| Rank by tokens last week | - | #3 |
| Unique users | 0 | 799K |
| Weekly retention | - | 75.6% |

Model pages: [DeepSeek Chat](https://opencode.ai/data/deepseek/deepseek-chat.md), [MiniMax-M3.1-Flash](https://opencode.ai/data/minimax/minimax-m3-1-flash.md)

## Methodology

- Updates: Aggregated every hour. Days and weeks use UTC.
- Tokens: Input, output, reasoning, and cached tokens for each request.
- Users and sessions: Approximate counts of distinct users and OpenCode sessions.
- Cost: Session cost is the average cost per OpenCode session. Token prices are list prices from the OpenCode model catalog.
- Retention: The share of a model's users in one week who use it again the next week.
- Citation: Cite OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data) with the update time shown at the top of the page.