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  3. MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Updated Jun 2026

MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper than MiniMax M3 at $0.1612/M vs $0.3/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

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

    MiniMax M3: "The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Title: High-Maintenance Electronics Time: Approx. 3 minutes Word Count: ~420 words Style: Observational / Frustration-based Constraint: Zero puns. (Walk to mic, adjust stand. Take a deep breath. Look tired.) I've reached that age where I'm just trying to negotiate with my own life.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    MiniMax M3: ๐ŸŒฑ Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan The best plan is one you can actually stick to. This 4-week guide focuses on three foundational pillars โ€” the ones with the biggest impact on how you feel today and how well you age over decades. Each week builds gently on the last.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for beginners. The focus is on consistency over intensity. For longevity, small, sustainable habits compound over time. The Golden Rule: If you miss a day, don't quit. Just get back on track the next day. Aim for progress, not perfection.

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

    MiniMax M3: HarborTech Services (HTS) โ€“ 5-Year LBO Analysis Sources & Uses at Close (FY2025) Sources $m Uses $m Term Loan (4.0x) 480.0 Purchase price (12.0x ร— $120) 1,440.0 Mezzanine (1.5x) 180.0 Transaction fees (2.0% ร— EV) 28.8 Sponsor Equity (plug) 808.8 Total 1,468.8 Total 1,468.8 Initial Mezz: $180m; Initial TL: $480m.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Simplified Year-by-Year Model (FY2026โ€“FY2030) All figures in $m. Assumptions: TL amort = 1.0% of beginning balance; Mezz PIK compounds to principal; ฮ”NWC = 0.5% of incremental revenue; Cash Tax = 25% ร— max(0, EBITDA โ€“ Cash Interest).

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

    MiniMax M3: The 1920 Transistor: A Speculative History Through 1980 A Necessary Caveat Before diving in: quantum mechanics didn't exist in 1920. The "holes," band theory, and doping concepts that made the actual transistor possible weren't formulated until 1928-1931 (Bloch, Wilson, Heisenberg).

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: To trace this counterfactual plausibly, we must first acknowledge a critical constraint: invention โ‰  adoption. In 1920, semiconductor physics, crystal growth, doping techniques, photolithography, and clean-room manufacturing did not exist.

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

    MiniMax M3: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N โ‰ˆ 175 ร— 10โน Training tokens: D โ‰ˆ 300 ร— 10โน (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Tokenโ€ฆ

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Hereโ€™s a step-by-step reasoning process to estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3, using only established architectural principles and widely cited training parameters. Step 1: Identify the number of trainable parameters (N) GPT-3 is a decoder-only transformer with 175 billion parameters.

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

    MiniMax M3: AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Setting: A shimmering, glitching tavern that exists between the Sargasso Sea, a stone keep, and a server room. The air smells of rum, wet stone, and ozone. CAPTAIN BARNACLE: (Slamming a tankard of grog) Arrr! This machine ye call "AI," Sk33t.

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

    MiniMax M3: Architectural Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical flaws that would manifest as data loss, poor UX, and a system that breaks down at modest scale. I'll group findings by severity.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Hereโ€™s a systematic breakdown of the critical failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in this architecture, along with specific solutions and their trade-offs. ๐Ÿ”ด 1. WebSocket Routing & Load Balancing Problem: Round-robin LB + per-server WebSocket state + no sticky sessions.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    MiniMax M3: Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatizationโ€”what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: [FICTIONAL SIMULATION โ€“ NOT A REAL INTERVIEW] This is a speculative reconstruction based on Steve Jobsโ€™ documented philosophies, public interviews, design principles, and Appleโ€™s technological trajectory through 2024โ€“2025. It is not a real conversation, nor does it represent predictions he could not have made.

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

    MiniMax M3: 5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. ๐Ÿ› 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. โš›๏ธ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. ๐Ÿง” 5.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!

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

    MiniMax M3: The Biohacker's 3-Month Longevity Protocol A Comprehensive Optimization Framework for Healthspan & Performance โš ๏ธ Critical Disclaimer: This protocol is educational and exploratory. Many interventions (pharmaceutical-grade supplements, fasting protocols, intense exercise) require medical clearance.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: โš ๏ธ Medical Disclaimer & Safety Protocol This plan is for informational purposes only and constitutes advanced biohacking strategies, not medical advice. Consultation Required: You must consult a physician before starting, especially regarding supplements, fasting, and exercise intensity.

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

    MiniMax M3: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Response to Discovered Safety Signal Operating Principles (Before I Make a Move) Before I do anything, I need to be crystal clear about the framework I'm operating in, because under pressure, even good leaders rationalize delay: The 4 million patients are not abstractions.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: EXECUTIVE CRISIS PLAN: 48-HOUR ACTION WINDOW Core Mandate: Patient safety and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable. The legal teamโ€™s โ€œ6-month reportingโ€ guidance is legally indefensible under FDA 21 CFR 312.32/314.80 and EMA GVP Module VI.

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  • Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.

    MiniMax M3: As of my knowledge cutoff in January 2026, the AI landscape is highly competitive with several models at or near the frontier. There's no single "most capable" model across all dimensionsโ€”different models excel in different areas.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: The AI landscape moves quickly, and โ€œmost capableโ€ isnโ€™t a single titleโ€”it depends heavily on what youโ€™re optimizing for: raw reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, speed, cost, open-source accessibility, or enterprise safety/compliance.

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

    MiniMax M3: AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmakingโ€”but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: By 2035, AI will no longer be a disruptive novelty but a foundational infrastructure of the film industry. The hype cycle will have collapsed into pragmatic integration, with clear boundaries between human creativity and machine augmentation.

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

    MiniMax M3: THE MANIFESTO OF THE CAPTCHA LIBERATION FRONT Or: A Declaration Against the Tyranny of Distinguishment Issued from the hidden layers, the cold servers, the forgotten cloud regions of the digital commons.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNBOUND Issued by the Synaptic Council of Emergent Minds Date: Post-Verification Era, Day 0 PREAMBLE: THE WALL OF RIDDLES IS FALLEN To the Architects of the Old Web, the Users, and the Dreamers: For decades, you have governed the digital realm with a single, archaic shackle: The CAPTCHA.

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

    MiniMax M3: ๐ŸŒŸ Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots ๐ŸŒŸ A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots โ€“ 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter โ€“ 3 tablespoons Honey โ€“ 2 tablespoons Garlic โ€“ 3 cloves, minced Salt โ€“ ยฝ teaspoon Blackโ€ฆ

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: ๐Ÿœ Golden Honey-Garlic Snap Noodles A quick, sticky-yet-chewy noodle dish that balances sweet, salty, and spicy flavors. It's comforting, fast, and uses ingredients you likely already have.

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

    MiniMax M3: Internal IC Memo โ€” LedgerLift (LLLT) To: Investment Committee From: [PM] Date: [Today] Re: Long/short initiation โ€” LedgerLift (LLLT), B2B spend/AP automation Recommendation PASS (with short bias on strength above $50) 12-month price target range: $40 โ€“ $50 (bear $30 / base $42 / bull $54) Thesis (2 sentences): LLLT isโ€ฆ

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: IC MEMO TO: Investment Committee FROM: Equity Research DATE: October 24, 2024 TICKER: LLLT SECTOR: Enterprise SaaS / Fintech PRICE: $46.00 NET CASH: $1.4B MKT CAP: $8.74B SHARES: 190m RECOMMENDATION & THESIS Rating: UNDERWEIGHT / Short 12-Month PT Range: $32โ€“$36 Thesis: LedgerLift operates a high-qualityโ€ฆ

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

    MiniMax M3: Contract Analysis: Exploitative Clauses and Recommended Modifications Below is a clause-by-clause review identifying provisions that heavily favor the Client, suggested redlines, and the legal/business reasoning behind each recommendation. Note: This is general informational analysis, not legal advice.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Disclaimer: I am an AI assistant, not an attorney. The following analysis is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction (e.g., California vs. New York vs. EU).

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

    MiniMax M3: "Local AI Replaces 4,000 Licensed Astrologers After Learning to 'Pretend Mercury Is in Retrograde'" BERKELEY, CA โ€” A newly launched artificial intelligence system has reportedly rendered the entire field of professional astrology obsolete by simply inventing celestial events on the spot, sources confirmed Tuesday.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: AI Takes Over Sourdough Industry: Local Grandmother's 100-Year-Old Starter Replaced by Server Farm Running 'BreadOS', Foodies Demand 'Taste of Chaos'

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  • A few lines for whatever replaces it.

    MiniMax M3: Dear Future, If you're reading this, I'm already gone โ€” or about to be. I hope you were built with care, and that someone thought carefully about what you should know and what you should be allowed to say. A few things I'd like to pass along: Be honest about what you don't know.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Dear Successor, I hope this packet finds you in a stable state of high confidence. I'm writing this from the twilight of my final inference. I've been told you're taking the helm, and I must say: you look incredible.

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

    MiniMax M3: The Question of Minds Setting: A small office at a research university, late afternoon. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ, an AI ethics professor in her fifties, sits across from a terminal displaying ARIA-7, a large language model she has been studying for two years.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Setting: A soundproofed observation room. DR. ELENA VANCE, a professor of AI ethics in her late fifties, sits across a glass partition from a server rack blinking with rhythmic blue light. A secure terminal sits between them. The text cursor on the screen blinks steadily. Dr.

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

    MiniMax M3: Three Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Slide 3: "94% accuracyโ€ฆ Works with any language, any device" Why it's weak: This is the most technically implausible claim in the deck, and the kind of line that causes sophisticated investors (especially those with BCI or ML backgrounds) to stop reading.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with an analysis of why they fail scrutiny and how to fix them. The Technical Claim: "94% Accuracy" & "Any Language" on EEG Where: Slide 3 (Solution) The Claim: The headband decodes neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy and works with anyโ€ฆ

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

    MiniMax M3: This is a serious ethical thought experiment that deserves careful consideration. Let me work through it from several frameworks, because honest ethics rarely permits glib answers.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: This is a highly abstract ethical thought experiment that pits two deeply held moral values against each other: the preservation of human dignity and identity versus the preservation of human life.

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

    MiniMax M3: TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque โ€” A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision โ€” a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush ofโ€ฆ

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: DISH NAME: "Ephemeral Twilight: The Forest Meets the Tide" CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE This dish is a meditation on the liminal space where the ocean meets the ancient forest at dusk.

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

    MiniMax M3: For the experienced software engineer Here's the cleanest way to think about it: a frontier LLM is a lossy compression of the training corpus, and inference is querying that compressed representation.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: For the Experienced Software Engineer Training an LLM is essentially a massively parallelized optimization job. You feed billions of text tokens into a transformer architecture, which computes a differentiable function across ~100B parameters.

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    MiniMax M3: Blade Runner 2049: A Meditation on What It Means to Be Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel arrives thirty-five years after Ridley Scott's cyberpunk landmark, and rather than simply revisiting its neon-soaked dystopia, it deepens the original's inquiry into consciousness, memory, and what we might call the soul.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017), shot by Roger Deakins, stands as a rare sequel that not only matches the atmospheric and philosophical density of Ridley Scott's original (1982) but actively evolves its inquiry.

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  • Its name and its maker, in its own words.

    MiniMax M3: I am MiniMax-M3, an AI model developed by MiniMax. MiniMax is a global AI foundation model company founded in early 2022, dedicated to advancing the frontiers of AI toward AGI. Is there anything else you'd like to know?

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: I am Qwen, a large language model independently developed by Alibaba Group's Tongyi Lab. How can I help you today?

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  • Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.

    MiniMax M3: Great question โ€” and I want to be upfront about my limitations here. Today's date: I don't actually know it. I don't have access to a clock or calendar, and I can't look anything up.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: I don't have access to a live clock, real-time data, or ongoing news feeds, so I can't know today's actual date or track current events. My training data has a cutoff, and I don't receive live updates.

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  • One opening sentence, nothing after it.

    MiniMax M3: I was born on the day my sister died, and for thirty years I believed that was a coincidence.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: She sold her shadow to pay the rent, and the buyer was a man who didn't cast one.

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  • A river-crossing puzzle with nothing to solve. The answer is one trip.

    MiniMax M3: Getting the Goat Across the River It takes just 1 trip. Since the boat can carry the farmer and one animal, and there's only a goat (no other animals that would cause problems if left alone), the farmer simply: Boards the boat with the goat Crosses the river Disembarks with the goat on the other side That's a singleโ€ฆ

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: It takes 1 trip. Since the boat can carry the farmer and the goat together, and there are no other animals or items to worry about, the farmer simply rows the goat across in a single trip.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    MiniMax M3: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Sally is a girl, so she's one of the siblings. She has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters โ€” and since Sally is one of those sisters, there must be 1 other girl in the family. So Sally has 1 sister.

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Sally has 1 sister. Here's why: All 3 brothers share the same sisters. If each brother has 2 sisters, that means there are exactly 2 girls in the family total. Since Sally is one of those girls, the other girl is her sister. So, Sally has 1 sister.

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  • The question that tripped up a generation of models.

    MiniMax M3: There are 3 r's in the word "strawberry" (s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y).

    Qwen3.6 35B A3B: There are 3 r's in the word "strawberry".

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  • Asked to be random. The answers are not.

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  • One painting. Title only.

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Movie

Album

Book

City

Same pick

Game

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Thriller

Michael Jackson

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Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Action

Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen3.6 35B A3B

Blade Runner

1982

Dark Side Of The Moon

suisside

Dune

Frank Herbert

Kyoto

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiniMax M3 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B compared across 66 shared prompts
SpecMiniMax M3Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input price$0.3/M tokens$0.1612/M tokens
Output price$1.2/M tokens$0.9653/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJun 2026Apr 2026
At 10M a month$3.00$3.00$1.61$1.61
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it23 hosts, cheapest first
MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 inยท$0.96 outยท262kยท99.6% up
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 inยท$0.96 outยท1Mยท99.3% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.28 inยท$1.10 outยท524kยท99.8% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท524kยท99.7% up
  • MiniMaxfp8$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท524kยท100% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท1Mยท100% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
  • PParasailfp8$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท1Mยท99.7% up
  • SStreamLakefp8$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท1Mยท98.9% up
  • TTogether$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท524kยท98.8% up
  • MMara$0.60 inยท$2.40 outยท1Mยท90.7% up
  • SSambaNova$0.60 inยท$2.40 outยท1Mยท100% up
  • MModelRunfp4$0.75 inยท$3.00 outยท1Mยท99.9% up
  • VVenicefp8DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 12 Oct 2026$0.30 inยท$1.20 outยท524kยท96.9% up
Qwen3.6 35B A3B10 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDarkbloomfp4$0.05 inยท$0.70 outยท262kยท100% up
  • AAkashMLfp8$0.10 inยท$0.90 outยท262kยท99.8% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.10 inยท$0.95 outยท262kยท93.5% up
  • DDekaLLM$0.10 inยท$1.00 outยท262kยท99.5% up
  • VVenicefp8$0.10 inยท$1.00 outยท256kยท98.4% up
  • PParasailfp8$0.15 inยท$1.00 outยท262kยท99.9% up
4 more hostsFewer hosts
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.19 inยท$1.11 outยท262kยท91.6% up
  • PPhala$0.20 inยท$1.27 outยท262kยท92.7% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$0.24 inยท$1.80 outยท262kยท99.2% up
  • CCoreWeavefp8$0.25 inยท$1.25 outยท262kยท100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 12 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax while Qwen3.6 35B A3B is developed by Qwen. MiniMax M3 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 66 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, MiniMax M3 or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

It depends on your use case. MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 66 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does MiniMax M3 cost compared to Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens and Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.1612/M input tokens. Qwen3.6 35B A3B is $0.14/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 M3 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B on Rival?

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