Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or MiniMax-M2 cheaper?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.27 vs $1.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or MiniMax-M2?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct vs MiniMax-M2

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or MiniMax-M2 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct	MiniMax-M2
Provider	LLM Gateway	LLM Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.07	$0.20
Output / 1M tokens	$0.27	$1.00
Context window	262K	197K
Parameters	—	229B
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Released	Apr 2025	Oct 2025

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct details →MiniMax-M2 details →

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