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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-01.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Vendorminimaxqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score77.265.2
Input Price$0.30/M$0.30/M
Output Price$1.20/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output512,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.361.1
ai_index_agentic58.344.6
ai_index_coding96.688.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
SQL Generation 167 159
Code Review 162 152
Code Completion 133 130
Code Refactoring 160 148
Bug Fixing 173 162
Unit Test Generation 151 144
Code Documentation 142 134
Regex Writing 134 131
CI/CD Pipelines 141 135
Frontend Component Design 143 140
Data Analysis 164 158
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 145
ETL Scripting 151 142
JSON Extraction 147 146
Bulk Data Labeling 135 134
OCR / Document Parsing 145 141
Table Extraction from PDFs 145 141
Long-Document Summarization 156 145
Short-Form Summarization 131 129
Blog Post Writing 138 132

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

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