Model comparison
MiniMax-M2.1 vs QwQ-32B
MiniMax-M2.1 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
MiniMax
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher in 6 categories and QwQ-32B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 58.3 to 50.6.
Side by side
| MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2025-12-23 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 205K | — |
| Max output | 131K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.1 leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 40.4 (#143), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1421 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1384 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 623.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
MiniMax-M2.1: 27.9 (#98), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 36.6% | — |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 16.6 (#302), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1411 | 1325 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 11.2% | — |
| 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-M2.1: 38.3 (#138), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1397 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.1 leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#147), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1431 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.1 leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 50.0 (#128), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1378 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1430 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1404 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1381 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1387 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1397 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.1 leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 73.8 (#112), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#101), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.1 leads
MiniMax-M2.1: 58.3 (#120), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | MiniMax-M2.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1392 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1361 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is MiniMax-M2.1 better than QwQ-32B?
MiniMax-M2.1 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is MiniMax-M2.1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.1 and QwQ-32B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.1 has 22 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.