# MiniMax-01 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/minimax-01-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 33.1.
- MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $1.30 / $7.80 for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
- MiniMax-01 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.8 | 51.1 |
| Rank | — | 36 |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.20 | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | $1.10 | $7.80 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1472 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |

## Reasoning

- MiniMax-01: 21.7
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 42.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1457 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.27 |

## Math

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- MiniMax-01: 33.1
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| Confabulations | 23.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1476 |

## Multilingual

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1436 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1444 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1452 |

## Instruction Following

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1437 |

## Long Context

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1457 |

## Writing & Preference

- MiniMax-01: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1456 |

## FAQ

### Is MiniMax-01 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, MiniMax-01 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview lists at $1.30 and $7.80.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-01 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do MiniMax-01 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-01 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.