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Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B offers 69.6K more tokens in context window than MiniMax M2.1. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
7 months newer
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
Qwen3-235B-A22B
OpenRouter
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-235B-A22B
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-235B-A22B