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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs MiniMax-M2

MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2 MiniMax

37.4

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M2 in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax-M2 leads 37.3 to 14.8.
  • MiniMax-M2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index29.537.4
Released2024-02-292025-10-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4621

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Coding12641370
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—61%
LMArena WebDev—1297
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
Terminal-Bench—30%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—160.6

Reasoning MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Hard Prompts12451357
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—57.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—14.8%
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-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Math12731352
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Expert12231337
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), MiniMax-M2: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Non-English12581313
LMArena Chinese12481366
LMArena French12751335
LMArena German12581355
LMArena Russian12801331
LMArena Spanish12461326
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Instruction Following12481328
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Longer Query12591331

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMiniMax-M2
LMArena Text12621340
LMArena Creative Writing12351286
LMArena Multi-Turn12751361
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than MiniMax-M2?

MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and MiniMax-M2 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.

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