CC MiniMax M2
Minimax · text → text
For Claude Code only
Input$0.1 /M
Output$0.1 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
CC MiniMax M2 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare CC MiniMax M2 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.
CC MiniMax M2
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.1
$1.69
Output /M
$0.1
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
0
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
0.6 s
12.5 s
Throughput
3.0 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
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.
cc-minimax-m2qwen3.8-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.
cc-minimax-m2qwen3.8-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
cc-minimax-m2qwen3.8-max
12601320138014401500
Overall
13461482
Coding
13851385
Math
13551355
Hard prompts
13681368
Instruction following
13401340
Multi-turn
13641364
Creative writing
12881288
Longer query
13431343
Chinese
13871387
English
13711371
WebDev Arena
cc-minimax-m2qwen3.8-max
1280140015201640
Overall
13051672
HTML
13121312
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.
CC MiniMax M2
$7.50 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: CC MiniMax M2, Qwen3.8 Max?
CC MiniMax M2: $0.1/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
CC MiniMax M2: 0.6s 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?
Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s and CC MiniMax M2 at 3.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
CC MiniMax M2 accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call CC MiniMax M2 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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