MiniMax M2.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare MiniMax M2.5 by MiniMax against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 205K vs 131K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M2.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M2.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
MiniMax M2.5
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
1.5× cheaper
Output
$0.80
1.5× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 1.5× input, 1.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 71.0x more emoji
MiniMax M2.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
55%Vocabulary55%
25wSentence Length18w
0.58Hedging0.52
6.0Bold6.7
4.4Lists4.3
0.01Emoji1.04
1.11Headings0.92
0.16Transitions0.11
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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