Which is cheaper, MiniMax M2 or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

MiniMax M2 lists at $0.3 input and $1.2 output per 1M tokens; Qwen3.5 35B-A3B at $0.25 and $2. MiniMax M2 is 1.3x cheaper per token at list price.

Which has the larger context window?

MiniMax M2 accepts 205K tokens and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B 262K tokens.

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MiniMax M2 vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores 16.3 on the Respan Index (#117), ahead of MiniMax M2 at 15.9 (#119). They split the 2 benchmarks both report evenly. MiniMax M2 is 1.3x cheaper per token at list price. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has the larger context window (262K tokens).

MiniMax M2MiniMax

Respan Index: 15.9 (#119)
Input / output per 1M: $0.3 / $1.2
Blended price per 1M: $0.525
Context window: 205K
Max output: 128K
Input: text
Released: 2025-10-27

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Respan Index by category

Coding5.3 MiniMax M21.0 Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Agents14.0 MiniMax M216.7* Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Reasoning10.8 MiniMax M2

Benchmarks both report

Benchmark	MiniMax M2	Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Elo	1343	1396
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)	1297	1253

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