Deepseek V4 Flash vs MiniMax M3

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-focused Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B active parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is built for fast inference and high-throughput workloads while preserving strong reasoning and coding capabilities. The model features hybrid attention for efficient long-context processing and offers configurable reasoning modes. It is a strong fit for use cases such as coding assistants, chat applications, and agent workflows where responsiveness and cost efficiency matter.

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks. Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.