Model comparison
MiniMax M1 vs QwQ-32B
MiniMax M1 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 41.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 69.4% for MiniMax M1 and 83.3% for QwQ-32B.
Side by side
| MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2025-06-13 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.55 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax M1 leads
MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1359 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1339 | 1325 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1361 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1317 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multilingual Too close to call
MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1319 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1360 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1370 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1217 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1266 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1329 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1353 | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1312 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1326 | 1308 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads
MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1343 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1298 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1335 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is MiniMax M1 better than QwQ-32B?
MiniMax M1 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is MiniMax M1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?
MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and QwQ-32B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.