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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus 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 14.8.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index29.540.3
Released2024-02-292025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.55
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked4618

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Coding12641359
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts12451339
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Math12731361
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Expert12231317
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English12581319
LMArena Chinese12481360
LMArena French12751370
LMArena German12581350
LMArena Japanese12041217
LMArena Korean11871266
LMArena Russian12801329
LMArena Spanish12461353

Instruction Following MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following12481312
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Longer Query12591326
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference MiniMax M1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax M1
LMArena Text12621343
LMArena Creative Writing12351298
LMArena Multi-Turn12751335
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and MiniMax M1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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