Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs MiniMax M1
MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax M1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 34.8 to 13.7.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), MiniMax M1: 39.2 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1359 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), MiniMax M1: 25.8 (#125)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1340 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), MiniMax M1: 34.8 (#152)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1360 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), MiniMax M1: 35.7 (#168)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1316 |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), MiniMax M1: 46.0 (#157)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1320 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1361 |
| LMArena French | 1262 | 1369 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1220 |
| LMArena Korean | 1172 | 1263 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1330 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), MiniMax M1: 69.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1312 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#136)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1326 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 69.4% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), MiniMax M1: 53.3 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1335 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.2 versus 32.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and MiniMax M1 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.