Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs MiniMax M1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and MiniMax M1 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.3 to 41.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 83.3% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1359 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1339 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1361 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1317 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1353 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1312 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1326 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1335 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than MiniMax M1?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (40.6 vs 39.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and MiniMax M1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.