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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendorminimaxqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score77.252.3
Input Price$0.30/M$0.14/M
Output Price$1.20/M$1.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output512,000262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.352.2
ai_index_agentic58.335.3
ai_index_coding96.669.1

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 167 154
Code Review 162 147
Code Completion 133 130
Code Refactoring 160 144
Bug Fixing 173 156
Unit Test Generation 151 140
Code Documentation 142 133
Regex Writing 134 129
CI/CD Pipelines 141 132
Frontend Component Design 143 137
Data Analysis 164 151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 141
ETL Scripting 151 138
JSON Extraction 147 143
Bulk Data Labeling 135 133
OCR / Document Parsing 145 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 145 138
Long-Document Summarization 156 142
Short-Form Summarization 131 128
Blog Post Writing 138 130

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

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