Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
MiniMax M3
76
Qwen3.7 Plus
87
Verified leaderboard positions: MiniMax M3 #13 · Qwen3.7 Plus #3
Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 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.
Agentic
+0.2 difference
Coding
+4.1 difference
Multimodal
+16.2 difference
MiniMax M3
Qwen3.7 Plus
$0.3 / $1.2
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Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 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.
Qwen3.7 Plus is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 87 to 76. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.7 Plus's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 81.1 against 64.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 66% to 70.3%. MiniMax M3 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.7 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M3 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.
Qwen3.7 Plus is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 87 to 76. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 66% and 70.3%.
Qwen3.7 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 67. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MiniMax M3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.9 versus 71.7. Inside this category, Claw-Eval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.1 versus 64.9. Inside this category, Video-MME (with subtitle) is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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