MiniMax M3 vs Qwen 3.8 Max

Detailed comparison of capabilities, features, and performance.

MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
VS
Qwen 3.8 Max

Qwen 3.8 Max

Alibaba
Feature MiniMax M3 Qwen 3.8 Max
AI Lab MiniMax Alibaba
Context Size 524,288 tokens 262,144 tokens
Max Output Size 64,000 tokens 32,768 tokens
Frontier Model Yes Yes
Vision Support No Yes
Description MiniMax's 428B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, sparse attention, function calling, and strong long-horizon coding and agentic performance. Alibaba's most capable closed flagship, built on the Qwen3.5 architecture with major gains in coding, research and long-horizon agentic work. Vision, function calling and a 262k context window. Available exclusively through Fireworks AI.

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