Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs MiniMax-M2.5
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 32.9.
- MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1381 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1372 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 146.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1378 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1379 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), MiniMax-M2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1393 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1362 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1353 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1366 |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than MiniMax-M2.5?
MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.