Alicloud Minimax M2.5
Minimax · → text
Input$0.2876 /M
Output$1.1504 /M
Cache read$0.0575 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Alicloud Minimax M2.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Alicloud Minimax M2.5 from Minimax and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Alicloud Minimax M2.5
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.2876
$1.69
Output /M
$1.1504
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.0575
$0.169
Context length
0
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
1.1 s
12.5 s
Throughput
42.7 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
alicloud-minimax-m2.5qwen3.8-max
Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
alicloud-minimax-m2.5qwen3.8-max
Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
alicloud-minimax-m2.5qwen3.8-max
13401380142014601500
Overall
13911482
Coding
14451445
Math
13971397
Hard prompts
14161416
Instruction following
13801380
Multi-turn
13941394
Creative writing
13581358
Longer query
14031403
Chinese
14291429
English
14151415
WebDev Arena
alicloud-minimax-m2.5qwen3.8-max
1340144015401640
Overall
13811672
React
13721372
HTML
14031403
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Alicloud Minimax M2.5
$34.51 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Alicloud Minimax M2.5, Qwen3.8 Max?
Alicloud Minimax M2.5: $1.1504/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
Alicloud Minimax M2.5: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Alicloud Minimax M2.5 at 42.7 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Can I call Alicloud Minimax M2.5 and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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