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Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B offers 69.6K more tokens in context window than MiniMax M2.1. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B supports multimodal inputs. 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-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
OpenRouter
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
MiniMax M2.1
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B