MiniMax-M2.5 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
235.1 B
Context
262,144
30d
141 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | MiniMax-M2.5 | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 228.7 B | 235.1 B |
| Architecture | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 196,608 | 262,144 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 893,342 | 141,425 |
| Downloads all time | 5.8 M | 1.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-12 | 2025-07-21 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.27 | $0.09 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.95 | $0.55 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.22 | $0.64 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.03 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.8 | 12 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 32,768 | 16,384 |
| API providers | 7 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
MiniMax-M2.5
$1.22
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
$0.64
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is 1.9× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
893 K141 K
MiniMax-M2.5
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
1,077.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
1,646.2 GB / 24 GB