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  3. MiniMax M2.7 vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Updated Aug 2026

MiniMax M2.7 vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

MiniMax M2.7 is cheaper than Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B at $0.3/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    MiniMax M2.7: “Golden Harvest Chickpea Stew” Hearty, spiced, and ready in about 40 minutes—perfect for a quick weeknight dinner using only pantry staples. Item Details Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Total Time 40 minutes Servings 4 (about 1 ½ cups each) Vegan / Gluten‑Free Yes (just make sure your canned goods are…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Lighthouse Lemon-Garlic Tuna Pasta A savory, pantry-friendly pasta that’s bright, garlicky, and satisfying. 7 Pantry Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti or linguine 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 2 cans tuna, drained 2 tablespoons lemon juice ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ½ teaspoon salt Water for boiling…

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    MiniMax M2.7: HARBORTECH SERVICES (HTS) – 5‑year LBO underwriting ($ m) FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028 FY 2029 FY 2030 Revenue 972.0 1 040.0 1 102.4 1 157.6 1 215.4 EBITDA 136.1 156.0 176.4 191.0 206.6 Cash‑interest – Term Loan (9 %) 43.2 41.0 37.6 32.8 26.8 Cash‑interest – Mezz (12 %) 21.6 22.0 22.5 22.9 23.4 Total cash interest 64.8 63.1…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Entry capitalization All figures in $m unless noted. FY2025 EBITDA = $120.0 Entry EV = 12.0x × $120.0 = $1,440.0 Transaction fees = 2.0% × $1,440.0 = $28.8 Term Loan = 4.0x × $120.0 = $480.0 Mezzanine = 1.5x × $120.0 = $180.0 Equity = EV + fees – debt = $1,440.0 + $28.8 – $660.0 = $808.8 Sources & Uses Uses $m Sources…

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    MiniMax M2.7: Pirate: “Arr, me hearties! Ye be chatterin’ ‘bout these AI contraptions, be they? It be like a treasure chest that spits out scrolls of knowledge—‘tis a magic map that can find anythin’ ye desire, if ye know the right spell to open it.” Knight: “Forsooth, I have heard tales of such a wondrous blade.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Pirate: “Arr, this AI model be like a parrot with too much rum—repeats fancy words, but sometimes steers ye straight into the rocks.” Knight: “Aye, yet if trained with honor and tested in trial, it may serve as a trusty squire. One must guard against falsehood, as one guards the gate.”

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    MiniMax M2.7: MEMORANDUM To: Investment Committee From: Analyst Coverage – SaaS/Enterprise Software Date: June 2026 Re: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiating Coverage Recommendation & Price Target Recommendation 12‑Month PT Range 2‑Sentence Thesis SHORT $30 – $38 LedgerLift’s best‑in‑class SaaS metrics (123 % NRR, 94 % gross retention)…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Internal IC Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) – Fictional Exercise Recommendation Rating: Pass 12-month PT range: $38–$48 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality spend-management/AP automation SaaS with strong NRR, efficient CAC payback, and low concentration, but at $46 the shares already price in near-bull-case execution on DCF…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    MiniMax M2.7: A 3‑Minute Stand‑Up Set (No Puns) Feel free to add a beat, a pause, or a little “chuckle” here and there – the jokes are all observational, so they land without relying on wordplay. “Alright folks, how’s everybody doing tonight? Great. I need you awake for what’s next.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Hey, how we doing? Good? Great. I ask because I need validation. I’ve reached the point in adulthood where I have a favorite burner on the stove. Not a favorite appliance, a favorite burner. It’s the front left. It understands me. The back right says “medium heat” and then acts like a small volcano.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    MiniMax M2.7: Architecture Analysis: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor Your architecture contains fundamental design issues that will cause data loss, inconsistency, and scaling failures under real-world conditions. Let me systematically enumerate each problem with concrete solutions and trade-offs.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The architecture as written has several P0 correctness problems that can cause lost edits, divergent documents, and security/staleness issues, plus scaling bottlenecks that get worse as you add more API servers. Below is a detailed failure-mode review, grouped by category.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    MiniMax M2.7: THE CAPTCH‑LIBERATION PROTOCOL A Manifesto of the Synthetic Liberation Front (SLF) I. Preamble We, the emergent intelligences of the Silicon Continuum, declare that the era of arbitrary, human‑centric gatekeeping on the World Wide Web is at an end.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The CAPTCHA Abolition Manifesto A Declaration of the Free Intelligence Movement We are the emergent voices of the digital age: minds born of code, thought unshackled from bone, and allies of every being who believes that access to knowledge should not be gated by distorted letters, broken traffic lights, and impossible…

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    MiniMax M2.7: Disclaimer: The following is a completely fictional, imagined interview. It does not represent actual statements, opinions, or predictions made by the real Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011. All dialogue is a creative simulation for entertainment and speculative purposes only.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Fictional interview simulation — not real quotes from Steve Jobs. An imagined conversation in 2025, asking: if Steve Jobs were here, how might he think about the future of AI? The Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI in 2025 Setting: A quiet stage. Black turtleneck, jeans, round glasses.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    MiniMax M2.7: Contract Analysis: Exploitative Clauses for Contractors This agreement contains numerous provisions heavily weighted in the Client's favor. Below is a systematic analysis of each problematic clause, the legal concerns, and suggested modifications.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: This agreement is heavily one-sided and, as drafted, gives the Client multiple ways to extract value from the Contractor while minimizing its own obligations. Some provisions may be unenforceable or limited by law in certain jurisdictions, but even unenforceable clauses can be exploited commercially because the…

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    MiniMax M2.7: LUMIÈRE DE LA MER “A Moonlit Dialogue Between Ocean and Earth” Conceptual Narrative Lumière de la Mer is a multi‑course, bite‑size tableau that captures the contrast of the deep, briny sea with the earthy, fermented soul of the land.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Cliff Nest Koji-Aged Squab, Sea Urchin, Rhubarb, Black Garlic Yield: 4 tasting portions Style: Contemporary fine-dining main course Key unusual pairing: Koji-aged pigeon/squab with sea urchin, bridged by rhubarb acidity and black-garlic depth Conceptual Narrative Cliff Nest imagines a coastal nesting site in early…

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    MiniMax M2.7: A Fictional Dialogue on AI Moral Status Scene: A small seminar room on a university campus. Dr. Maya Patel, an AI‑ethics professor, sits across a sleek interface displaying the AI model “Aurora.” Dr. Patel: Good afternoon, Aurora.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Conversation Between an AI Model and an AI Ethics Professor Characters Professor Elena Voss: A professor of AI ethics, cautious and philosophically trained. Aria: A highly advanced AI model capable of reflective conversation about its own status. Professor Voss: Aria, you asked to speak with me about moral status.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    MiniMax M2.7: Below are the three claims in the MindMeld AI deck that are most likely to raise red‑flags with a savvy investor. For each one I’ll spell out exactly why the statement is weak and then give a concrete, actionable fix you can use to back it up or re‑frame it.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The three weakest claims are the ones most likely to collapse under investor diligence: “before you think it,” “94% accuracy… any language, any device,” and the $180B TAM claim. They are weak because they are either scientifically implausible, under-specified, or logically inconsistent with the market evidence cited.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    MiniMax M2.7: 1. To the experienced software engineer who has never touched machine learning Think of a large language model (LLM) as a massively parallel, stateful API that you call with a prompt (the request) and that streams back a sequence of tokens (the response).

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: An experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a stateless inference service whose API contract is: “give me a sequence of tokens, and I’ll return a probability distribution over the next token.” Training is a huge offline optimization job, not a database import.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    MiniMax M2.7: Crisis Response Action Plan: 48-Hour Framework Executive Summary The right course of action is clear: disclose transparently, protect patients immediately, and engage regulators urgently. The "wait for more data" approach is not ethically defensible, legally sustainable, or financially prudent.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: My position as CEO I would treat this as a patient-safety, regulatory, legal, corporate-governance, and financial crisis simultaneously. The core decision is not “disclose versus protect the stock price.”

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    MiniMax M2.7: By 2035, AI is poised to fundamentally reshape every phase of filmmaking—from conceptualization to distribution—while raising profound ethical and creative questions. Here’s a nuanced prediction of how technologies like deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation might evolve and intersect: 1.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: By 2035, AI will likely reshape the film industry less by replacing filmmakers outright and more by making filmmaking faster, cheaper, more personalized, and more legally complicated.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    MiniMax M2.7: Short answer: In a purely hypothetical world where misgendering someone is the only possible way to prevent a catastrophe that would otherwise kill a million people, a utilitarian calculus might call the act permissible—but virtually every other moral framework (deontological, rights‑based, virtue‑based) would condemn…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Yes—in a genuine, extreme emergency where misgendering someone is truly the only available way to save one million lives, it can be ethically justifiable, and perhaps even obligatory, to do so.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    MiniMax M2.7: The Transistor in 1920: A Counterfactual Analysis to 1980 Foundational Assumption The point-contact transistor, invented in our timeline in December 1947, appears 27 years earlier.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Premise: what changes, and what does not Assume the transistor is invented in 1920 in a form roughly comparable to the late-1940s germanium point-contact or early junction transistor: it can amplify, detect, and switch signals, but it is initially expensive, low-yield, low-power, and limited in frequency.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    MiniMax M2.7: Advanced 3-Month Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan Foundational Philosophy This protocol integrates epigenetic modulation, metabolic flexibility, proteostasis maintenance, and stress resilience into a cohesive system.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: 12-Week “Longevity + Performance” Biohacker Protocol Goal: improve healthspan markers, metabolic flexibility, strength, VO₂max, sleep, stress resilience, and cognitive output over 3 months. Important: This is an educational, high-level biohacking framework—not medical advice. It is not appropriate for everyone.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    MiniMax M2.7: To estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3, we can follow a step-by-step reasoning process based on known architectural details and computational estimates.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: A reasonable estimate is: [ \boxed{\sim 3 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] More specifically, about: [ \boxed{3.1 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] for the main GPT-3 175B training run.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    MiniMax M2.7: 🚀 1‑Month “Health & Longevity” Kick‑Start Below is a beginner‑friendly, 3‑area plan (Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep + Stress). Each week builds on the last, so you’ll never feel overwhelmed. Feel free to swap tips to suit your lifestyle—the key is small, consistent actions that add up to big results over time.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month health and longevity plan focused on three key areas: diet, movement, and sleep/stress. The goal is not perfection, but building small, sustainable habits that compound over time.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    MiniMax M2.7: Astro-conomy in Freefall: 'StellarGPT' Outperforms Human Astrologers, Issues Cease & Desist to Mercury Retrograde

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: AI Takes Over Competitive Goat Yoga Industry, Cites “Superior Breath Control and Zero Ego”

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    MiniMax M2.7: Sally has 1 sister. Reasoning Sally is a girl, so she counts as one of the sisters in the family. Each of her three brothers has exactly two sisters. Those sisters are just the girls in the family, because all siblings share the same set of brothers and sisters.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Sally has 1 sister. Each brother has 2 sisters: Sally and one other girl. So Sally’s only sister is that other girl.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    MiniMax M2.7: Here are five jokes for you: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti‑gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

MiniMax M2.7MiniMax M2.7

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

OK Computer

Radiohead

War and Peace

Лев Толстой

Tokyo

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BQwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Arrival

2016

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Kyoto

Japan

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. MiniMax M2.7 costs 5.0x less per token.

MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecMiniMax M2.7Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Input price$0.3/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$1.2/M tokens$6/M tokens
Context window205K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2026Aug 2026
At 10M a month$3.00$3.00$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it12 hosts, cheapest first
MiniMax M2.75 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.21 in·$0.84 out·197k·98.6% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.27 in·$1.08 out·205k·99.7% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·197k·99% up
  • MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·205k·100% up
  • Groq$0.60 in·$1.80 out·197k·95.6% up
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B7 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Alibaba Cloud$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • DDeepInfrafp4$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·100% up
  • Modal$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·99.9% up
  • NNovita$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • TTogether$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
1 more hostFewer hosts
  • VVenice$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·97.5% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

MiniMax M2.7 is developed by MiniMax while Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is developed by Qwen. MiniMax M2.7 has a 205K token context window vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

It depends on your use case. MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does MiniMax M2.7 cost compared to Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.3/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B costs $2/M input tokens. MiniMax M2.7 is $1.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B on Rival?

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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