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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorqwenminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-47.2
Input Price$0.15/M$0.30/M
Output Price$0.47/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072512,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-48.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 FlashMiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 132 141
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 143
Bug Fixing 136 145
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 131 136
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 124 131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 134
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 137 145
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 121 127

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

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