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A Journal of Intelligence Transfer
Models & Hardware

MiniMax’s Own Table Puts DeepSeek-1017 Ahead on Coding

77.0 to 73.7 on DeepSWE; MiniMax wins Automation-Bench. @MiaAI_lab ranks DeepSeek first of what you can run.

The vendor put a rival that beats it in its own table.

@MartinSzerment read MiniMax’s benchmark table closely. On coding, DeepSeek’s newest Flash wins. On BankerToolBench, M3.1 Flash scores 76.2, the same as Opus 5.

BenchmarkMiniMax-M3.1-FlashDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
DeepSWE v1.173.777.0
Terminal Bench 4.038.142.3
NL2Repo-Bench61.268.2
Automation-Bench v1.0.662.860.5
HLE (without tools)43.442.6
Vendor numbers for official weights; third-party quants may differ. Source: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash model card.

@nuonrg says Artificial Analysis has M3.1 Flash at 42, on par with GLM-5.3-Flash.

For local owners, @MiaAI_lab gives her ranking in a reply: “Among the model we can realistically run, Qwen is only inferior to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.”

Sources

  1. @MartinSzerment on X · Oct 22, 9:59 PM PT
  2. @nuonrg on X · Oct 23, 12:51 AM PT
  3. @MiaAI_lab on X · Oct 23, 6:47 AM PT
  4. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash model card · huggingface.co
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