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 M3 if you want open-weight autonomous agents that lean on tool use. 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 2 of five dimensions (speed and reliability), while MiniMax M3 leads in 1. On price, MiniMax M3 runs about $0.57 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.