MiniMax M2.7 vs Qwen3.5 397B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Qwen3.5 397B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 60 versus 57. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

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 397B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax M2.7

57

Qwen3.5 397B

56.9

57%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
58%
46.3%
Toolathlon
Coming soon
66.6%
MLE-Bench Lite
Coming soon
62.7%
MM-ClawBench
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BrowseComp
62%
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OSWorld-Verified
52%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

Qwen3.5 397B

40.7

56.2%
SWE-bench Pro
42%
76.5%
SWE Multilingual
Coming soon
52.7%
Multi-SWE Bench
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55.6%
VIBE-Pro
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39.8%
NL2Repo
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HumanEval
75%
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SWE-bench Verified
42%
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
39%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

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1495
GDPval-AA
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MMMU-Pro
56%

Reasoning

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Coming soon
MuSR
78%
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BBH
82%
Coming soon
MRCRv2
71%

Knowledge

Coming soon

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
83%
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GPQA
82%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
80%
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
73%
Coming soon
HLE
10%
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FrontierScience
71%
Coming soon
SimpleQA
80%

Instruction Following

Coming soon

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IFEval
82%

Multilingual

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
MGSM
82%
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MMLU-ProX
77%

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
AIME 2023
83%
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AIME 2024
85%
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AIME 2025
84%
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HMMT Feb 2023
79%
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HMMT Feb 2024
81%
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HMMT Feb 2025
80%
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
82%
Coming soon
MATH-500
81%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiniMax M2.7 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 60 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 56.2% and 42%.

Which is better for coding, MiniMax M2.7 or Qwen3.5 397B?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 40.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, MiniMax M2.7 or Qwen3.5 397B?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 56.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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