MiniMax M2 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct Comparison
Comparing MiniMax M2 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.
Performance Benchmarks
Comparative analysis across standard metrics
MiniMax M2 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.
Arena Performance
Human preference votes
Pricing Analysis
Price comparison per million tokens
Cost data unavailable.
Model Size
Parameter count comparison
MiniMax M2 has 156.6B more parameters than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct, making it 213.4% larger.
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Only MiniMax M2 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only MiniMax M2 specifies output context (1,000,000 tokens).
Input Capabilities
Supported data types and modalities
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas MiniMax M2 does not.
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
MiniMax M2
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
License
Usage and distribution terms
MiniMax M2 is licensed under MIT, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
MIT
Open weights
tongyi-qianwen
Open weights
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
MiniMax M2 was released on 2025-10-27, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.
MiniMax M2 is 14 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.
Oct 27, 2025
4 months ago
1.2yr newerAug 29, 2024
1.5 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while MiniMax M2's cutoff date is not specified.
We can confirm Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct's training data extends to 2023-06-30, but cannot make a direct comparison without MiniMax M2's cutoff date.
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Jun 2023
Outputs Comparison
Key Takeaways
MiniMax M2
View detailsMiniMax
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
View detailsAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Detailed Comparison
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