Model comparison

MiniMax-M2.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 19 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus

Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 50.5 to 26.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 16.8% for MiniMax-M2.5 and 74.8% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for Qwen3.7 Plus.
Qwen3.7 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 205K.
MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiniMax-M2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus specifications
	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
Provider	MiniMax	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	38.3	45.3
Released	2026-02-12	2026-06-02
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	205K	1M
Max output	131K	131K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$0.40
Output $ / M tokens	$1.20	$1.60
Results tracked	33	32

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Coding	1381	1473
FrontierCode	—	10.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	75.8%	—
LMArena WebDev	1387	—
SWE-bench Multilingual	68.3%	—
SciCode	—	45.5%
ALE-Bench	618.17	—

Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77), Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
Terminal-Bench	42.7%	—
OSWorld 2.0	—	2.8%
Vending-Bench 2	-23.16	—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
NYT Connections (extended)	16.8%	74.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1372	1460
Epoch Capabilities Index	146.68	147.37
ARC-AGI-2	4.9%	—
Kagi LLM Benchmark	55.2%	—
ARC-AGI-1	63.7%	—
CritPt	—	9.1%
Chess Puzzles	—	24%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	17%
DTBench	—	84%
LMCA	—	37.6%

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Math	1378	1466
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	34.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	93.3%
ProofBench	4%	—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Expert	1379	1467
GPQA Diamond	—	87.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.1%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

MiniMax-M2.5: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision	—	1279
LMArena Document	—	1444

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English	1338	1445
LMArena Chinese	1393	1510
LMArena French	1362	1473
LMArena German	1362	1471
LMArena Japanese	1171	1413
LMArena Korean	1232	1415
LMArena Russian	1358	1457
LMArena Spanish	1354	1457

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following	1353	1440

Long Context Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query	1366	1455
CL-bench	11.4%	—
CL-bench Life	6.3%	—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax-M2.5	Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text	1359	1455
LMArena Creative Writing	1331	1439
LMArena Multi-Turn	1364	1460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1361	—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax-M2.5 better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is MiniMax-M2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax-M2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-M2.5 has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.