$ diff qwen-3-8-27b minimax-m3
Qwen 3.8 27B vs MiniMax M3
Values come from Qwen 3.8 27B and MiniMax M3, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Alibaba QwenQwen 3.8 27B
- context
- 262K
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.3
- $/M out
- $1.2
What actually differs
- Context window
- MiniMax M3 takes 1M against 262K — 3.8× more room in a single request.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — Qwen 3.8 27B under Apache 2.0, MiniMax M3 under Open-weight (HuggingFace). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- Qwen 3.8 27B shipped 74 days after MiniMax M3 (2026-08-14 vs 2026-06-01).
Full spec
| Attribute | Qwen 3.8 27B | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Alibaba Qwen | MiniMax |
| Released | 2026-08-14 | 2026-06-01 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens (native; reported extensible to ~1M via YaRN) | 1,000,000 tokens (1M); min. 512K guaranteed |
| Pricing | not recorded | $0.30/M input · $1.20/M output ($0.06/M cached input) — OpenRouter catalogue, read 2026-07-28 |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Open-weight (HuggingFace) |
| Availability | Hugging Face (`Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`, `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8`), ModelScope | API (global, including English) + open-weight on HuggingFace |