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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-28.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendorminimaxqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score77.267.6
Input Price$0.30/M$0.33/M
Output Price$1.20/M$1.95/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output512,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.365.3
ai_index_agentic58.345.5
ai_index_coding96.690.0

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 167 163
Code Review 162 158
Code Completion 133 132
Code Refactoring 160 157
Bug Fixing 173 168
Unit Test Generation 151 148
Code Documentation 142 140
Regex Writing 134 132
CI/CD Pipelines 141 139
Frontend Component Design 143 141
Data Analysis 164 159
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 151
ETL Scripting 151 148
JSON Extraction 147 146
Bulk Data Labeling 135 134
OCR / Document Parsing 145 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 145 144
Long-Document Summarization 156 154
Short-Form Summarization 131 130
Blog Post Writing 138 135

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

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