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Claude Opus 4.1 vs MiniMax M1

Claude Opus 4.1 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.0 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

MiniMax M1 MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax M1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax M1 leads 37.5 to 22.3.
  • MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
  • MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index41.040.3
Released2025-08-052025-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1M
Max output32K40K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.55
Output $ / M tokens$75$2.20
Results tracked4818

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Coding14791359
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts14431339
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math MiniMax M1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Math14311361
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Expert14391317
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), MiniMax M1: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English14051319
LMArena Chinese14271360
LMArena French14311370
LMArena German14131350
LMArena Japanese13781217
LMArena Korean13801266
LMArena Russian14221329
LMArena Spanish14481353

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following14351312

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Longer Query14551326
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1MiniMax M1
LMArena Text14191343
LMArena Creative Writing14121298
LMArena Multi-Turn14441335
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than MiniMax M1?

Claude Opus 4.1 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.0 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or MiniMax M1?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 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 Opus 4.1 and MiniMax M1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.

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