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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Vendorminimaxqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score47.221.9
Input Price$0.30/M$0.26/M
Output Price$1.20/M$2.08/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output512,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index48.225.7

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SQL Generation 139 134
Code Review 141 131
Code Completion 132 129
Code Refactoring 143 131
Bug Fixing 145 135
Unit Test Generation 129 124
Code Documentation 136 128
Regex Writing 124 122
CI/CD Pipelines 125 120
Frontend Component Design 127 125
Data Analysis 131 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 134 126
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 129
Long-Document Summarization 145 133
Short-Form Summarization 126 124
Blog Post Writing 127 122

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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