Model Comparison

MiniMax M2.5 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Comparing MiniMax M2.5 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

MiniMax M2.5 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.

Lowest available price from all providers
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MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5
Input tokens$0.30
Output tokens$1.20
Best providerMiniMax
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

156.6B diff

MiniMax M2.5 has 156.6B more parameters than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct, making it 213.4% larger.

MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5
230.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
230.0B
MiniMax M2.5
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only MiniMax M2.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only MiniMax M2.5 specifies output context (1,000,000 tokens).

MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output1,000,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas MiniMax M2.5 does not.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

MiniMax M2.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

MiniMax M2.5 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.

MiniMax M2.5

MIT

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

MiniMax M2.5 was released on 2026-02-12, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

MiniMax M2.5 is 18 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

MiniMax M2.5

Feb 12, 2026

2 months ago

1.5yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while MiniMax M2.5'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 M2.5's cutoff date.

MiniMax M2.5

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (1,000,000 tokens)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about MiniMax M2.5 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax) and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.
MiniMax M2.5 scores SWE-Bench Verified: 80.2%, BFCL_v3_MultiTurn: 76.8%, BrowseComp: 76.3%, MEWC: 74.4%, GDPval-MM: 59.0%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench_test: 86.5%.
MiniMax M2.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
MiniMax M2.5 is developed by MiniMax and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.