Agentic
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 72.3
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 3 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Model comparison
MiniMax M3 vs Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Updated August 4, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead.
0 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Which one for your work
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.
Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.
Show secondary and unsupported calls
Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.
Confidence: limited
Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.
Confidence: limited
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Not enough matched evidence
A complete context comparison is not sourced.
Confidence: limited
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
What is actually comparable
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
21 MiniMax M3 only
- Shared results
- 0
- MiniMax M3 only
- 21
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 / 8
Category results, on a stated basis
Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.
Coding
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 72.2
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 2 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Reasoning
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not measured
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 0 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Knowledge
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not measured
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 0 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Math
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 85.7
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 1 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multilingual
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not measured
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 0 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multimodal
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- 64.9
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 2 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Instruction following
Not comparable- MiniMax M3
- Not measured
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- Not measured
- Weighted basis
- 0 vs 0 rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
| Category | MiniMax M3 | Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct | Weighted basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 72.3 | Not measured | Not comparable3 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Coding | 72.2 | Not measured | Not comparable2 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 85.7 | Not measured | Not comparable1 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 64.9 | Not measured | Not comparable2 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
Shape of the matched evidence
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
A shared-evidence shape is not available.
BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
Chat turn
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.0009
- Fits in one request
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- API rate not published
- Fit state unavailable
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct has no comparable published API token rate.
Repository review
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.0186
- Fits in one request
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- API rate not published
- Fit state unavailable
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct has no comparable published API token rate.
Cache-heavy agent loop
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
- MiniMax M3
- $0.03
- Fits in one request
- Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
- API rate not published
- Fit state unavailable
- Cached-input rate unavailable
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct has no comparable published API token rate.
Specification differences
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
SpecificationMiniMax M3Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Context window
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
MiniMax M3
1M
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
N/A
API model ID
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Not sourced
Cached-input rate
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
MiniMax M3
$0.06 per 1M cached input tokens
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
No comparable hosted API rate
Alibaba model documentationDocumented inputs
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Not sourced
Documented outputs
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Not sourced
Provider availability
MiniMax M3
Not sourced
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Not sourced
Reasoning profile
MiniMax M3
Non-Reasoning
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Non-Reasoning
Weight access
MiniMax M3
Open Weight
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Open Weight
License
MiniMax M3
Open Weight
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
Open Weight
Release date
MiniMax M3
2026-06-01
Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct
2024-07-15
If you already use one of these models
- Deployment change
- The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
- Quality signal
- The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict.
- Workload cost
- A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
- Context tradeoff
- A complete documented context comparison is not available.
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
Benchmark evidence
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Browse raw public benchmark evidence21 rows
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.0
MiniMax M366%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
BrowseComp
MiniMax M383.5%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
OSWorld-Verified
MiniMax M370.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
MiniMax M374.2%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
MiniMax M374.5%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
BankerToolBench
MiniMax M376.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
ResearchClawBench
MiniMax M319.8%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.0
MiniMax M34.6%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M380.5%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
MiniMax M359%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
MiniMax M366.0%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
MiniMax M342.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
VIBE V2
MiniMax M350.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
SVG-Bench
MiniMax M363.7%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
KernelBench Hard
MiniMax M328.8%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Math
USAMO 2026
MiniMax M385.7%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Multimodal
OfficeQA Pro
MiniMax M345.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
MiniMax M391.6%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
MiniMax M378.1%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
MiniMax M384.6%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
MiniMax M385.4%SourceQwen2-Audio 7B Instruct—Not directly comparable
Frequently asked questions
Which is better, MiniMax M3 or Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct?
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Which is better for coding, MiniMax M3 or Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct?
The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.
Which is better for agentic tasks, MiniMax M3 or Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct?
The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted agentic tasks basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a agentic tasks winner.
Which costs less, MiniMax M3 or Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct?
Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.
Which has the larger context window, MiniMax M3 or Qwen2-Audio 7B Instruct?
A complete documented context-window comparison is not available.
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Last updated August 4, 2026
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