Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose MiniMax M2.1 if you want tool-heavy personal and autonomous agents on a budget. Choose Qwen3.7 Plus if you want high-volume agent work that needs long context cheaply.
In our editorial scoring, Qwen3.7 Plus leads in 4 of five dimensions (output quality, agentic ability, speed and reliability), while MiniMax M2.1 leads in 1. On price, MiniMax M2.1 runs about $0.49 per 1M tokens (blended) and is open-weight; Qwen3.7 Plus is about $0.61 and proprietary.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.