Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs MiniMax M1
MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 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 37.5 to 9.8.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1359 |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1339 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1361 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1317 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1353 |
Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1312 |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1326 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 69.4% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1335 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and MiniMax M1 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.