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Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Coder-480B 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-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
Qwen3-Coder-480B
OpenRouter
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B