Compare MiniMax M3.1 Flash 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.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Qwen3.8 MaxMiniMax-M3.1-Flash is MiniMax's latest flagship model, aimed at office automation, software engineering, visual reasoning, and professional analytics. It combines multi-step task execution with front-end and presentation-creation capabilities, supporting workflows that transform information and visual references into tangible deliverables.
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.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash: $0.66/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 6.2s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash at 61.3 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.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash accepts text and image input; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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