Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 53.9 to 29.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 34.2% for Claude 3 Haiku and 55.2% for MiniMax-M2.5.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index25.938.3
Released2024-03-072026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3733

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding11991381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1387
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
WeirdML9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
ALE-Bench—618.17
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%55.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts11741372
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35146.68
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
DTBench50.1%—
LMCA8.8%—
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math11881378
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%—
ProofBench—4%
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert11481379
GPQA Diamond36.3%—
Confabulations34.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), MiniMax-M2.5: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English11781338
LMArena Chinese11551393
LMArena French11951362
LMArena German11741362
LMArena Japanese11021171
LMArena Korean11091232
LMArena Russian12041358
LMArena Spanish11661354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following11731353

Long Context MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query11901366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text11951359
LMArena Creative Writing11571331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing7171361
LMArena Multi-Turn11901364

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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