Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct is a 32-billion-parameter open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5 series trained on 18 trillion tokens. The model is positioned as a high-capability option for developers with access to multi-GPU setups or high-VRAM hardware, offering strong performance on coding, structured reasoning, and multilingual tasks while remaining fully open under Apache 2.0. Its 128K context window and support for structured output generation made it a popular choice for document processing and agentic workflows in the open-source community.
1 year newer
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Minimax M 2.5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Minimax M 2.5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct