MiniMax
Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.
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MiniMax vs Qwen Chat
MiniMax (MiniMax) and Qwen Chat (Alibaba) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat is the cheaper entry point at Free to chat on official website. Qwen Chat shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 5). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | MiniMax MiniMax | Qwen Chat Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | M3 | Qwen3-2507 |
| Entry cost | from $0.3/org/mo | Free to chat on official website |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · API input /M $0.3 · API output /M $1.2 | Free free |
| Model stack | H3 · M2.5 · M2.7 · M3 · MiniMax Code · MiniMax H3 · MiniMax M2.5 · MiniMax M2.7 · MiniMax M3 · MiniMax Music 3.0 · MiniMax Speech 2.8 · MiniMax-M2.1 · Music 3.0 · Speech 2.8 | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ |
| Context window | 1000000 | 256K |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 5 | 10 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Interleaved thinking, Tool calling, Open weights, Long context, Text Generation, Code Generation, Video Generation, Speech Generation | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding |
Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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