M3.1 Flash Max vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: same 38 minutes, better quality from MiniMax
Testing via an M Plan subscription, the user gets ~200 tok/s from M3.1 Flash; both models finish the same test in 38 minutes, but MiniMax's output quality is preferred, and the run used only ~6% of the 5-hour limit on the $22 Go plan.
M3.1-Flash Max vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017, I think MiniMax takes the win here! First of all, the speed is impressive, I'm currently using it through my MiniMax M Plan subscription and getting around 200 tokens per second, pretty close to DeepSeek. Both models finished the test in exactly 38 minutes, but I prefer the quality of MiniMax's result, especially considering how little it costs. I'm on the $22 Go plan and this test only used around 6% of my 5 hour limit, which is less than 1% of my weekly allowance, so that's a pretty good deal for the amount of work it completed, I'm still running several more tests in parallel and this was actually the first one to finish, so I'm curious to see how the other results turn out. Congrats to the MiniMax team, they've built a really impressive model!