DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs MiniMax M3
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less on both: $0.0279 in and $0.1116 out per million tokens, against $0.09 in and $0.36 out for MiniMax M3. Both on one key at UplinkSwitch, each next to its developer's list price.
Prices · per million tokens, USD
Get a key| Tokens | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423deepseek-v4-flash | MiniMax M3minimax-m3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.0279DeepSeek lists $0.30 · 90% under | $0.09MiniMax lists $0.30 · 70% under |
| Cached input | $0.025DeepSeek lists $0.006 | $0.018MiniMax lists $0.06 · 70% under |
| Output | $0.1116DeepSeek lists $1.20 · 90% under | $0.36MiniMax lists $1.20 · 70% under |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max output | 393,216 tokens | 524,288 tokens |
| Input | text | text, image, video |
| Released | 2026-04-24 | 2026-06-01 |
| Formats | OpenAI SDK | OpenAI SDK |
| Developer | DeepSeek | MiniMax |
List price: each developer's published rate, read October 2026. A model with no cached rate bills cached tokens at its input rate. Live from GET https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog.
What the same work costs · USD, here and at list
| Work | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 chat requests | $0.1116list $1.20 | $0.36list $1.20 |
| 100 long documents | $0.1618list $1.74 | $0.522list $1.74 |
| A month of both, daily | $8.20list $88.20 | $26.46list $88.20 |
A chat request is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens; a long document is 50,000 in and 2,000 out; the month is 1,000 chats and 100 documents a day for 30 days, uncached. Over that month DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs $18.26 less here.
Same key, same URL
One base URL and one key serve both models. The DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 API and the MiniMax M3 API answer at the same base URL in the OpenAI format, so a client or SDK setup moves between them by changing the model id. The request below calls DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423; put minimax-m3 in the model field to call MiniMax M3 instead.
shell
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Model pages: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 API, MiniMax M3 API. Pricing by family: DeepSeek, MiniMax. More comparisons: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423, MiMo-V2.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423, MiniMax M3 vs Kimi K2.6.
Questions
- Which costs less, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or MiniMax M3?
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less on both: $0.0279 in and $0.1116 out per million tokens, against $0.09 in and $0.36 out for MiniMax M3.
- Can I switch between them by changing the model id?
- Yes. Both answer in the OpenAI SDK format at the same base URL with the same key. Change the model id from deepseek-v4-flash to minimax-m3 and nothing else.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee. Each top-up locks your prices for 30 days.
- Is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 the better pick?
- Better depends on the job; this page compares what the catalog can measure. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less on both: $0.0279 in and $0.1116 out per million tokens, against $0.09 in and $0.36 out for MiniMax M3. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 takes 1,048,576 tokens of context against 1,000,000 for MiniMax M3. MiniMax M3 is the newer release. Both run on the same key, so the fair test is your own prompt sent to each model id.