Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek R1 (DeepSeek · China) and MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMax AI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek R1 is rated conditional; MiniMax-M2.7 is blocked. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek R1 is "MIT", MiniMax-M2.7 is "MiniMax Non-Commercial License".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Frontier reasoning model at o1-class performance. MIT licence makes weights legally clean. Same Chinese-origin alignment/supply-chain considerations as DeepSeek V3. Distilled Qwen/Llama versions inherit their base licence. | Blocked Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | MiniMax Non-Commercial License |
| Commercial use | Yes | Non-commercial only |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 27/100 | 50/100 |
| Speed | — | 46 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.36/M | $0.53/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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