MiniMax M2.7 vs Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 60 against 56.2.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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57%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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46.3%
Toolathlon
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66.6%
MLE-Bench Lite
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62.7%
MM-ClawBench
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Coding

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

60

56.2%
SWE-bench Pro
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76.5%
SWE Multilingual
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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
83%
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SWE-bench Verified
60%

Multimodal & Grounded

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1495
GDPval-AA
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Reasoning

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MuSR
85%

Knowledge

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50
Artificial Analysis
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MMLU
91%
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GPQA
89%
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SuperGPQA
87%
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MMLU-Pro
81%
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SimpleQA
87%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
89%

Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2023
93%
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AIME 2024
95%
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AIME 2025
94%
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HMMT Feb 2023
89%
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HMMT Feb 2024
91%
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HMMT Feb 2025
90%
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BRUMO 2025
92%
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MATH-500
93%

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 63 to 57.

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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