Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
MiniMax M2.7
~66
1/8 categoriesQwen3.5-27B
71
Winner · 1/8 categoriesMiniMax M2.7· Qwen3.5-27B
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 66. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.5-27B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 77.6 against 56.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 57% to 41.6%. MiniMax M2.7 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
MiniMax M2.7 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-27B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M2.7 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for MiniMax M2.7.
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| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.5-27B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticMiniMax M2.7 wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 57% | 41.6% |
| Toolathlon | 46.3% | — |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 66.6% | — |
| MM-ClawBench | 62.7% | — |
| BrowseComp | — | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 56.2% |
| tau2-bench | — | 79% |
| CodingQwen3.5-27B wins | ||
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.2% | — |
| SWE Multilingual | 76.5% | — |
| Multi-SWE Bench | 52.7% | — |
| VIBE-Pro | 55.6% | — |
| NL2Repo | 39.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.4% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 80.7% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| GDPval-AA | 1495 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 75% |
| Reasoning | ||
| LongBench v2 | — | 60.6% |
| Knowledge | ||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 86.1% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 65.6% |
| GPQA | — | 85.5% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 95% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 82.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Qwen3.5-27B is ahead overall, 71 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 57% and 41.6%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 51.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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