MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview vs Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone)
A direct, empirical evaluation of MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax) against Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone) (Independent AI Systems Lab (Guanxu Yu & Yuhang Yao)).
MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
Developed by MiniMax · Proprietary Sparse Coding MoE parameters
Low-latency interactive IDE code completions at 165 tokens/sec, SWE-bench Verified bug fixes (73.8%), terminal automation, and budget-optimized pull request reviews.
Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone)
Developed by Independent AI Systems Lab (Guanxu Yu & Yuhang Yao) · 8.2 Billion Vision-Language Parameters parameters
Sub-20ms multi-query image verification, automated rejection sampling in generative diffusion pipelines (FLUX / SD3), robotics perception routing, and high-frequency visual software inspection.
| Metric | MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview | Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | 62.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.2% | 86.4% |
| MATH-500 | 92.4% | 89.2% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 32,768 tokens (Visual prefix + batched question suffixes) |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $0.10 | $0.05 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $0.40 | $0.10 |