Model comparison
MiniMax M1 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 52.1 to 45.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 69.4% for MiniMax M1 and 55.6% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2025-06-13 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 40K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.55 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.20 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1359 | 1440 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1339 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1361 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1317 | 1417 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1319 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1360 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1370 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1217 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1266 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1329 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1353 | 1435 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1312 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1326 | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1343 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1298 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1335 | 1416 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is MiniMax M1 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.
Is MiniMax M1 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.