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Qwen3.5-27B vs MiniMax-M2.7

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 19 results on 4 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3.5-27B Released 24 Feb 2026 · $0.27 in · $2.16 out
MiniMaxMiniMax-M2.7 Released 18 Mar 2026 · $0.30 in · $1.20 out
Qwen3.5-27B wins 66 too close to callMiniMax-M2.7 wins 7

Of the 19 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 9 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-09-dd620e778ac5). See also Alibaba vs MiniMax, every model from both labs.

Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7? The short answer

They score about the same, so pick MiniMax-M2.7: it costs 29% less per token.

  • MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper: $0.52 against $0.74 per million tokens, 29% less.
  • They score about the same on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (22.9 and 22.8).
  • MiniMax-M2.7 is newer: released 18 Mar 2026, against 24 Feb 2026 for Qwen3.5-27B.
  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3.5-27B does better for writing and sticking to the facts; MiniMax-M2.7 for reasoning and knowledge.

Head to head

22.9
Intelligence Index
22.8
$0.74
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$0.52
262,144
Context window, tokens
204,800

Every fact side by side

Qwen3.5-27BMiniMax-M2.7
Price per million tokens$0.27 in · $2.16 out$0.30 in · $1.20 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.74$0.52
Cheapest host, blended$0.54 (Alibaba)$0.37 (GMICloud, FP8)
Cached input, per million–$0.060 cached input
Intelligence Index22.922.8
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window262,144 tokens204,800 tokens
Released24 Feb 202618 Mar 2026 (newer)
WeightsOpenOpen
Developer based inChinaChina

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 145 of 164 103 of 164
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 82 of 198 72 of 198
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 98 of 188 109 of 188
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 121 of 152 126 of 152

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureQwen3.5-27BMiniMax-M2.7
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 129 · 118 of 387 measured 1,409 1,415
Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 112 · 110 of 163 measured 1,420 1,422
Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 128 · 101 of 380 measured 1,408 1,424
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 86 · 87 of 243 measured 22.9 22.8
GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 74 · 63 of 231 measured 85.8% 87.4%
Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 95 · 74 of 242 measured 23.9% 29.6%
UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results
Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 99 · 120 of 230 measured 42.4think-prefill reasoning 37.6
Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 49 · 182 of 230 measured 11.0%think-prefill reasoning 36.0%
Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 147 · 26 of 230 measured 0.33no reasoning 0.38
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard reported by Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · 2 results
Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 80 · 84 of 104 measured 12.1% 12.9%
Answer rate · Vectara% of documents, higher is better 31 · 55 of 104 measured 99.8% 99.4%
Show all 19 results (8 more)
MeasureQwen3.5-27BMiniMax-M2.7
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 4 results
Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 145 · 139 of 385 measured 1,358 1,364
Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 112 · 93 of 338 measured 1,441 1,453
Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 122 · 114 of 387 measured 1,401 1,407
Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 135 · 127 of 386 measured 1,380 1,387
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 4 results
IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 24 · 22 of 195 measured 75.6% 75.7%
Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 63 · 54 of 233 measured 77.7% 78.3%
Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 61 · 36 of 190 measured 32.6% 39.4%
τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 28 · 60 of 193 measured 93.9% 84.8%

Quick answers

Is Qwen3.5-27B better than MiniMax-M2.7?

They score about the same, so pick MiniMax-M2.7: it costs 29% less per token.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper: $0.52 against $0.74 per million tokens, 29% less.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 ranks 103 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 145 for Qwen3.5-27B.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 ranks 72 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 82 for Qwen3.5-27B.

Which is better for writing, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

Qwen3.5-27B ranks 98 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 109 for MiniMax-M2.7.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

Qwen3.5-27B ranks 121 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 126 for MiniMax-M2.7.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.5-27B or MiniMax-M2.7?

Qwen3.5-27B: 262,144 tokens, against 204,800 for MiniMax-M2.7.

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