Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs MiniMax-M3
MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M3 in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 28.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 71.1% for MiniMax-M3.
- MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 43.5 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2026-06-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 512K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), MiniMax-M3: 41.5 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | 1470 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14.7% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| SciCode | — | 47.1% |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 640.02 |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), MiniMax-M3: 22.5 (#121)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 37.7% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 2,158 |
Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), MiniMax-M3: 29.3 (#83)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | 45.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1447 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 78.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 147 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 61.4 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 65.1% |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 14% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| LMCA | — | 33.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 55% |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), MiniMax-M3: 39.1 (#83)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1306 | 1432 |
| ProofBench | — | 18% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#32)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 90.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | 1462 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), MiniMax-M3: 39.5 (#45)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1254 |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1435 |
Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), MiniMax-M3: 53.2 (#70)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1445 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1424 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1381 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1372 |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | 1431 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), MiniMax-M3: 75.7 (#56)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1433 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1445 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), MiniMax-M3: 62.3 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1433 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1405 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1441 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1150 |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than MiniMax-M3?
MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?
MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and MiniMax-M3 share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.