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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
Provider
Alibaba
MiniMax
Family
MiniMax M
Modality
image
text
Context window
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1,000,000 tok
Max output
—
131,072 tok
Released
2026-10-10
2026-10-22
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
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$0.150 /1M
Output price
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$0.600 /1M
Per image
$0.040 /img
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Tools
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Streaming
—
yes
Vision
—
—
JSON mode
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—
Reasoning
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—
Prompt caching
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Batch API
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Try it
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Full spec →
Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
Full spec →

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a fast, cost-efficient multimodal model for agentic tasks, coding, and computer use. It accepts text, image, and video input, always reasons before answering with adjustable effort, and has a 1M-token context window.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# MiniMax M3.1 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3.1-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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