MiniMax vs DeepSeek: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

MiniMax offers three subscription plans: Plus, Max, and Ultra, billed monthly or yearly, with two months free on yearly plans.

• Plus ($20/month or $200/year): Around 1.7 billion M3 tokens a month, 3 to 4 agents running at once, and a 1 million token context window.

• Max ($50/month or $500/year): Around 5.1 billion M3 tokens, 4 to 5 agents, and video generation at 3 clips a day.

• Ultra ($120/month or $1,200/year): Around 12.5 billion M3 tokens, 6 to 7 agents, and 5 video clips a day.

Users can also buy credit packs starting at $5 for 5,000 credits, valid for one year. Teams of five or more can get per seat pricing with shared billing and usage management.

DeepSeek is free to use through its website and mobile app, with no cost for chat, writing help, or file uploads.

For developers, DeepSeek offers an API that is billed by usage, based on the number of tokens processed.

• DeepSeek-V4-Flash: Costs $0.14 per 1 million input tokens, $0.0028 per 1 million tokens on a cache hit, and $0.28 per 1 million output tokens.

• DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Costs $0.435 per 1 million input tokens, $0.003625 per 1 million tokens on a cache hit, and $0.87 per 1 million output tokens.

Charges are calculated by multiplying the number of tokens used by the price, and fees are taken automatically from your account balance. You only pay for what you actually use, so there is no fixed monthly fee for the API.