Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs MiniMax-M2.1

MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.1 MiniMax

38.9

Rank #178 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.1 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 38.3 to 10.7.
  • MiniMax-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index29.038.9
Released2024-02-292025-12-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3022

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), MiniMax-M2.1: 40.4 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Coding12231421
LMArena WebDev—1384
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—623.83
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, MiniMax-M2.1: 27.9 (#98)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
Terminal-Bench—36.6%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), MiniMax-M2.1: 16.6 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Hard Prompts11971411
NYT Connections (extended)—11.2%
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Math12131397
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Expert11731431
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.8%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), MiniMax-M2.1: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), MiniMax-M2.1: 50.0 (#128)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Non-English12051378
LMArena Chinese11891430
LMArena French12291404
LMArena German12041381
LMArena Japanese11311287
LMArena Korean11281298
LMArena Russian12271387
LMArena Spanish12041397

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), MiniMax-M2.1: 73.8 (#112)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Instruction Following11991400

Long Context MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Longer Query12111416

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.1 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), MiniMax-M2.1: 58.3 (#120)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Text12181392
LMArena Creative Writing11861361
LMArena Multi-Turn12271396

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than MiniMax-M2.1?

MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or MiniMax-M2.1 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and MiniMax-M2.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.

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