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DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) vs MiniMax M3: pricing, Quality, Value, and benchmarks
Side-by-side buyer comparison built from the current published top 10 snapshot. Quality and Value stay deterministic, while editorial verdict excerpts remain clearly AI-labeled.
Provisional evidenceProvisional evidence
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) Quality
44.6
MiniMax M3 Quality
59.8
Quality delta
-15.2MiniMax M3 leads
Value delta
-57.5MiniMax M3 leads
Buyer summary
MiniMax M3 leads Quality by 15.2 points. MiniMax M3 leads Value by 57.5 points.
Shared roster
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A cost-efficient frontier challenger for buyers who want strong reasoning, long-context work, and coding evidence without paying Western flagship economics.
Monthly price
DeepSeek API: $0/month
App access
DeepSeek
Conversation benchmark
Free tier
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
Monthly price
MiniMax Free: $0/month
App access
MiniMax
Conversation benchmark
Free tier
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
Deterministic scores
Quality and Value comparison
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Q 44.6
V 11.3
Quality rank 8 and value rank 8 in the current published roster.
MiniMax M3
Q 59.8
V 68.8
Quality rank 6 and value rank 1 in the current published roster.
Buyer access
Pricing, app access, and Conversation Value
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
DeepSeek API: $0/month
Free tier
Hosted app: DeepSeek
MiniMax M3
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
MiniMax Free: $0/month
Free tier
Hosted app: MiniMax
Benchmark evidence
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
33.5%
Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation | Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.
SWE-Bench Pro
Software engineering task resolution
55.4%
BenchLM AI coding leaderboard | Third-party coding leaderboard with exact model rows for SWE-Bench Pro and companion coding benchmarks.
GPQA Diamond
Pass@1
90.1%
NVIDIA DeepSeek V4 Pro model card | NVIDIA-hosted model card row for DeepSeek V4 Pro Max; use as sourced provisional benchmark evidence. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic terminal task completion
67.9%
NVIDIA DeepSeek V4 Pro model card | NVIDIA-hosted model card row for DeepSeek V4 Pro Max; display as companion agentic coding evidence. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row.
Benchmark evidence
MiniMax M3
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
37.1%
Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation | Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.
Editorial excerpt
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
A cost-efficient frontier challenger for buyers who want strong reasoning, long-context work, and coding evidence without paying Western flagship economics.
Released April 2026, DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) is a serious cost-efficiency challenger for buyers who care about frontier intelligence without frontier infrastructure costs. It competes with leading Western frontier models on complex reasoning, document analysis, and sustained multi-step work, while appearing to require far fewer processing resources for the level of capability delivered. Its strengths are broad versatility: long-context work that stays coherent, useful creative writing, strong coding benchmark evidence, and interactions that feel more thoughtful than formulaic. The caveats are still real: Western models may retain an edge on some narrow coding benchmarks, deeper web-search integration, and enterprise ecosystem maturity, and the low unit cost can encourage enough usage that teams should still watch total volume. Bottom line: DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) is frontier-level capability at unusually aggressive economics. If you want one of the smartest models your money can buy, it belongs high on the shortlist.
Editorial excerpt
MiniMax M3
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
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