MiniMax-M2.7 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 12 August 2026.

MiniMaxAI · A · Open weights
Params
228.7 B
Context
204,800
30d
302 K
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
235.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
163 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification MiniMax-M2.7 Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 228.7 B 235.1 B
Architecture MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 204,800 40,960
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 302,065 163,422
Downloads all time 8.1 M 1.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-09 2025-04-28
API input price / 1M tokens $0.21 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.84 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.05 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.042 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 52.6 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index 15.3 not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 176,947 not on OpenRouter
API providers 2 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

MiniMax-M2.7 $1.05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.5 M163 K
MiniMax-M2.7 Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8 · fp16 298.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
MiniMax-M2.7 · fp16 @ 200K ctx 1,111.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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