MiniMax M2-her vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare MiniMax M2-her by MiniMax against Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B by Qwen, context windows of 66K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
MiniMax M2-herRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window.
MiniMax M2-her is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
MiniMax M2-her
Input
$0.30
2.0× cheaper
Output
$1.20
3.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
Output
$3.60
MiniMax M2-her is cheaper on both — 2.0× input, 3.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
46%
MiniMax M2-her uses 4.2x more emoji
MiniMax M2-her
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
65%Vocabulary54%
18wSentence Length14w
0.71Hedging0.39
2.0Bold6.9
1.7Lists4.2
0.96Emoji0.23
0.31Headings0.93
0.21Transitions0.17
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