Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax M1

Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax M1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiniMax M1 leads 26.9 to 15.1.
  • MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
  • MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index39.540.3
Released2025-10-152025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1M
Max output64K40K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.55
Output $ / M tokens$5$2.20
Results tracked5318

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Coding14531359
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts14201339
ARC-AGI-24%—
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles8%—
DTBench73.6%—
LMCA30.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.41—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Math13961361
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%—
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Expert14421317
GPQA Diamond71.2%—
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English13771319
LMArena Chinese14171360
LMArena French14081370
LMArena German13751350
LMArena Japanese13391217
LMArena Korean13471266
LMArena Russian13811329
LMArena Spanish14201353

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following14141312
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Longer Query14271326
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M1
LMArena Text13961343
LMArena Creative Writing13721298
LMArena Multi-Turn14091335
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than MiniMax M1?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 and $5.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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