MiniMax-01 vs Qwen3 14B

MiniMax-01 at $0.230 in and $1.26 out and Qwen3 14B at $0.262 in and $1.05 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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Qwen3 14B

Qwen

0.21¢

for a client proposal

$0.262 in · $1.05 out / 1M

131K context · released April 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: Qwen3 14B at $1.05 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¢

Qwen3 14B

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

MiniMax-01

0.22¢

Qwen3 14B

0.21¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

MiniMax-01

4.1¢

Qwen3 14B

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

MiniMax-01

0.93¢

Qwen3 14B

1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

MiniMax-01

$0.06

Qwen3 14B

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

Qwen3 14B

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Pricing

MiniMax-01

Qwen3 14B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.230

$0.262

Output / 1M tokens

$1.26

$1.05

Specs

MiniMax-01

Qwen3 14B

Provider

MiniMax

Qwen

Released

January 2025

April 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

Input

Text and Images

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-03-31

2025-03-31

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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Qwen3 14B

Qwen

0.1¢

for this task

50% input · 50% 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 2,336 of these.

Which should you pick?

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

On price, Qwen3 14B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.21¢.

For images or files, MiniMax-01 can read them directly; Qwen3 14B is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3 14B shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-01 or Qwen3 14B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3 14B 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 Qwen3 14B 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.