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MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

MiniMax M3 leads Qwen3.7 Plus on coding, 39.2 to 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, at about the same output price ($1.20 vs $1.28 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 74 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace MiniMax M3 Replace Qwen3.7 Plus
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
21
Qwen3.7 PlusQwen
Coding
33.2
Overall
54.0
Output $/M
$1.28
53
vs boards won of 74 shared

MiniMax M3 or Qwen3.7 Plus: which to pick

Pick MiniMax M3 for coding: it scores 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for work measured by SkillsBench (Vals AI) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model AMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved taskModel BQwen3.7 PlusQwen33.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
74
MiniMax M3 only
42
Qwen3.7 Plus only
1
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Plus 33.2 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 10.7 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
OTIS Mock AIME: MiniMax M3 71.1% against Qwen3.7 Plus 93.3%, 22.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
MiniMax M3 $1.20 against Qwen3.7 Plus $1.28 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
Context window
MiniMax M3 takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.7 Plus 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryMiniMax M3BarsQwen3.7 PlusTies
Coding64
Intelligence11
Agentic work52
Reasoning36
Math03
Knowledge14
Web design17
General426
All shared boards2153
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index64
Coding benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding70.9%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev1482Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
AA Coding Index58.655.9MiniMax M3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)82.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)75.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)1.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)47.6%46.4%MiniMax M3
Code migration (Vals AI)19.9%12.9%MiniMax M3
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)53.6%52.8%MiniMax M3
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)33.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)9.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)51.5%54.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
CyberBench (Vals AI)65.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SciCode47.1%46.1%MiniMax M3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)42.4%47.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
FrontierCode14.7%10.2%MiniMax M3
ALE-Bench640.0Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: coding14701473Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: software and IT14661473Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena WebDev: React1478Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1455Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1470Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Intelligence benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index29.225.2MiniMax M3
Epoch Capabilities Index146.9147.0Qwen3.7 Plus
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index52
Agentic work benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index29.517.5MiniMax M3
Design Arena: agents building web apps1200Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1197Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1169Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1159Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1158Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1130Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1181Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1028Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench research68.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench browser8.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench long agentic12.4%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)48.3%38.2%MiniMax M3
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)20.6%10.5%MiniMax M3
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)29.8%16.4%MiniMax M3
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)47.8%49.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
τ²-Bench Telecom88.9%93.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
APEX-Agents37.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
OSWorld 2.04.6%2.8%MiniMax M3
Vending-Bench 2$2,158Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index36
Reasoning benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond92.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench reasoning74.5%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)81.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)92.9%90.0%MiniMax M3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)39.0%35.6%MiniMax M3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.9%87.9%MiniMax M3
SimpleBench45.8%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Chess puzzles13.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Mystery game puzzles8.0%17.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: hard prompts14471460Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: expert14611466Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14551460Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: diagrams12661292Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: homework12681295Qwen3.7 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
OTIS Mock AIME71.1%93.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured34.4%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
ProofBench18.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: math14291467Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: mathematical work14481470Qwen3.7 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
Knowledge benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro84.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.4%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)68.1%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)72.7%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.4%66.2%MiniMax M3
MedCode (Vals AI)46.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: science14521464Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14411464Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: legal and government14371451Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: business and finance14341435Qwen3.7 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17
Web design benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12571269Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: UI components12421258Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: game dev12101261Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: data viz12361276Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: 3D12081238Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: all code categories12471269Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: SVG11611208Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: ASCII art11611143MiniMax M3
LiveBench design66.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index426
General benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
LiveBench data analysis76.2%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)64.1%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)50.6%39.3%MiniMax M3
MedScribe (Vals AI)87.3%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
Vals Multimodal Index60.0%53.9%MiniMax M3
IFBench82.9%78.0%MiniMax M3
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)83.0%73.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench78.9%84.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
LMCA33.7%37.6%Qwen3.7 Plus
Surface Evolver Bench55.0%Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text14331454Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: instruction following14331439Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: creative writing14041438Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision12511278Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: English14431458Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: non-English14201445Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Chinese14661509Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: German14281471Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese13801412Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Korean13731413Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: French14441472Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Spanish14331457Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Russian14261457Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Polish14231449Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: multi-turn14431459Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: longer queries14461454Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: writing and language14191437Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14031422Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: English12631280Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: Chinese13111332Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: reading text12591288Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: humor12351261Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1197Not measuredOnly MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12341258Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Document14351444Qwen3.7 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.0010Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.020Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.077Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of MiniMax M3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
SpecificationMiniMax M3Qwen3.7 Plus
MakerMiniMaxQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedMay 31, 2026June 3, 2026
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$0.30$0.32
Output $/Mtok$1.20$1.28
Coding index39.233.2
Independent measurements behind it62
Cost per solved task$0.56Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is MiniMax M3 better than Qwen3.7 Plus for coding?

Pick MiniMax M3 for coding: it scores 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus. Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for work measured by SkillsBench (Vals AI) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.32 and $1.28. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, MiniMax M3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus comparison based on?

74 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. MiniMax M3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Plus's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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