Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. Minimax M 2.5 is $1.24 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
Minimax M 2.5
DeepSeek-R1
Minimax M 2.5
DeepSeek-R1
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax