MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Compare MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 by MiniMax against Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking by Qwen, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
Input
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Output
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Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
44%
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking uses 19.9x more emoji
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
48%Vocabulary61%
20wSentence Length15w
0.56Hedging0.23
3.1Bold5.2
0.8Lists3.9
0.07Emoji1.37
0.73Headings1.22
0.12Transitions0.04
Based on 24 + 13 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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