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MiniMax M3 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for MiniMax M3 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.

MiniMax

MiniMax M3

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding,...

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Alibaba

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and...

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Technical Specifications

SpecificationMiniMax M3Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMiniMaxAlibaba
Context Window1,048,576 tokens131,072 tokens
Agent SuitabilityN/AN/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)N/AN/A
Deployment Modelmanaged apiself hostable
Production Stabilitybetastable
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2026-05-312024-10-16

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

MiniMax M3

$0.30

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

$0.04

Output Price per Million Tokens

MiniMax M3

$1.20

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

$0.10

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
8400.0%vs7580.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
8350.0%vs7800.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
6200.0%vs4250.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
4250.0%vs3200.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
8520.0%vs7950.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
888.0%vs820.0%
MiniMax M3
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

MiniMax M3 Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.