Qwen-72B vs MiniMax-M2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
MiniMaxAI · B
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
271 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen-72B MiniMax-M2
Parameters 72.3 B 228.7 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 196,608
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,220,611 271,081
Downloads all time 7.5 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2025-10-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.2 M181 K
Qwen-72B MiniMax-M2

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
MiniMax-M2 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,076.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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