qwen3-max vs minimax-m3
Side-by-side comparison of qwen3-max and minimax-m3: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. minimax-m3 outperforms qwen3-max on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks.
qwen3-max
Input / 1M
$0.86
Output / 1M
$3.44
Context
262K
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3-max
MiniMax
minimax-m3
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$1.20
Context
1M
Model ID
minimaxi/minimax-m3
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
qwen3-max39.8%
minimax-m354.7%
Coding Indexcoding
qwen3-max30.5%
minimax-m343.4%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
qwen3-max86.1%
minimax-m392.9%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
qwen3-max24.2%
minimax-m342.4%
τ²-Benchagentic
qwen3-max83.6%
minimax-m388.9%
SciCodecoding
qwen3-max43.1%
minimax-m345.4%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
qwen3-max26.2%
minimax-m337.1%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| qwen3-max | minimax-m3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $0.86 | $0.30 |
| Output price / 1M | $3.44 | $1.20 |
| Context window | 262K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 66K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | N/A | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | Alibaba Cloud | MiniMax |
Questions people ask
Is qwen3-max better than minimax-m3?
minimax-m3 outperforms qwen3-max on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: qwen3-max and minimax-m3 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, qwen3-max or minimax-m3?
minimax-m3 is cheaper. qwen3-max costs $0.86/$3.44 per 1M input/output tokens, while minimax-m3 costs $0.30/$1.20.
Can I use qwen3-max and minimax-m3 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "alibaba/qwen3-max" and "minimaxi/minimax-m3", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
qwen3-max supports up to 262K tokens of context. minimax-m3 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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