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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 2026-06-12.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendorminimaxqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score87.083.3
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_index90.282.5
ai_index_agentic100.0100.0
ai_index_coding71.670.7

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 170 169
Code Review 167 165
Code Completion 133 133
Code Refactoring 163 162
Bug Fixing 182 181
Unit Test Generation 152 151
Code Documentation 144 143
Regex Writing 137 136
CI/CD Pipelines 144 143
Frontend Component Design 146 145
Data Analysis 171 170
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 151 150
ETL Scripting 154 152
JSON Extraction 145 145
Bulk Data Labeling 134 133
OCR / Document Parsing 144 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 144 144
Long-Document Summarization 161 159
Short-Form Summarization 132 132
Blog Post Writing 141 140

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

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