MiniMax-01 vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

MiniMax-01 at $0.230 in and $1.26 out and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct at $0.287 in and $0.863 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

MiniMax-01

MiniMax

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $1.26 out / 1M

1M context · released January 2025

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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen

0.21¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $0.863 out / 1M

32K context · released February 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.43¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: MiniMax-01 at $0.230 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct at $0.863 per million tokens.
Largest context: MiniMax-01 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

MiniMax-01

0.11¢

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

MiniMax-01

0.22¢

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

0.21¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

MiniMax-01

4.1¢

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

MiniMax-01

0.93¢

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

needs 35K ctx

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

MiniMax-01

$0.06

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

MiniMax-01

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

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Pricing

MiniMax-01

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Input / 1M tokens

$0.230

$0.287

Output / 1M tokens

$1.26

$0.863

Specs

MiniMax-01

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Provider

MiniMax

Qwen

Released

January 2025

February 2025

Context window

32K

Max output

—

Input

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-03-31

2024-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

MiniMax-01

MiniMax

0.11¢

for this task

42% input · 58% output

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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen

0.1¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.21¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,382 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, MiniMax-01 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.21¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

MiniMax-01 pricing →Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-01 or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct at 0.21¢; MiniMax-01 at 0.22¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

MiniMax-01 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run MiniMax-01 and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.43¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.43¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.