MiniMax-01 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- MiniMax-01 is 1.8× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- MiniMax-01 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 33K tokens.
- MiniMax-01 is the newer model (released 2025-01-15).
| MiniMax-01 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | MiniMax | qwen |
| Released | 2025-01-15 | 2024-11-11 |
| Input / 1M | $0.20 | $0.66 |
| Output / 1M | $1.10 | $1.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.425 | $0.745 |
| Context | 1M | 33K |
| Max output | 900K | 29K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $1.10 | $1.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
MiniMax-01
$28.50 per month$0.95 per day
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
$54.60 per month$1.82 per day
MiniMax-01 saves $26.10 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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