As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B is 64% cheaper per million tokens than MiniMax M2.5. MiniMax M2.5 is $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens versus Qwen3 30B A3B at $0.10 / $0.44. Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/
Sources: AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing); Qwen pricing (https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/)
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.44
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
MiniMax M2.5Qwen3 30B A3BVerdict
Qwen3 30B A3B offers significantly lower pricing, while MiniMax M2.5 leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B is 64% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.44 per million output tokens ($0.54 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens ($1.50 blended). Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax API pricing is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens via MiniMax. Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.44 output per million tokens via Qwen. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
MiniMax M2.5 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 80.2%. Qwen3 30B A3B does not have that eval on this page yet.
MiniMax M2.5 supports a 1M token context window, while Qwen3 30B A3B supports 128K tokens. MiniMax M2.5 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
MiniMax M2.5 leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks versus Qwen3 30B A3B's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both MiniMax M2.5 and Qwen3 30B A3B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Qwen3 30B A3B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call MiniMax M2.5 through MiniMax and Qwen3 30B A3B through Qwen with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published MiniMax API pricing and Qwen API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
MiniMax M2.5 supports up to 1M output tokens per request, while Qwen3 30B A3B supports up to 128K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
MiniMax M2.5 runs at approximately 100 tokens/second while Qwen3 30B A3B runs at 88.84 tokens/second. MiniMax M2.5 is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open MiniMax M2.5 or Qwen3 30B A3B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. MiniMax M2.5 costs $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output. Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.10/M input and $0.44/M output.
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