# MiniMax M2.7 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minimax-m2-7-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 19
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6 Plus leads overall 53.54 to 47.29.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 93 for MiniMax M2.7 and 85.8 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HMMT Feb 2026 in Mathematics, with scores of 72.7% and 87.8%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | MiniMax | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 47.29 | 53.54 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 29 | 49 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 33.2 (Supported · #99/135)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 35.1 (Supported · #91/135)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 57% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| τ³-bench results | 67.6% | 70.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Toolathlon | 46.3% | 39.8% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | 62.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 48.7% | 58.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Gert Labs | 40.40% | 50.60% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 48.7% | 53.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 34.7 (Supported · #85/156)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40.1 (Supported · #68/156)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.2% | 56.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-Rebench | 51.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 76.5% | 73.8% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Multi-SWE Bench | 52.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 39.8% | 37.9% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 57.0% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Vibe Code Bench | 27.04% | 25.56% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| React Native Evals | 71.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 79.9% | 86.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 73.8% | 73.4% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 78.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 73.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 75.8 (#24/58)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 45.2 (Supported · #94/179)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.1 (Supported · #68/179)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 28% | 28.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 86.6% | 87.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 80.4% | 87.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 93 (#14/157)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#50/157)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 70.5 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M2.7 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 89.8% | 95.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 81.0% | 94.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 72.7% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.246% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniMax M2.7 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 93 for MiniMax M2.7 and 85.8 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 29 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 49 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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