Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs MiniMax-M2

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2 MiniMax

37.4

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 19.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 30% for MiniMax-M2.
  • MiniMax-M2 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 205K.
  • MiniMax-M2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index58.337.4
Released2026-04-142025-10-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M205K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked6621

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena WebDev15581297
LMArena Coding15181370
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—61%
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
Terminal-Bench80.2%30%
Vending-Bench 210,937160.6
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%57.8%
NYT Connections (extended)39%14.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061357
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Math14991352
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench54%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Expert15211337
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), MiniMax-M2: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Non-English14801313
LMArena Chinese15311366
LMArena French15031335
LMArena German14951355
LMArena Russian14941331
LMArena Spanish14951326
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Instruction Following14981328

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Longer Query15051331

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2
LMArena Text14901340
LMArena Creative Writing14861286
LMArena Multi-Turn15051361
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than MiniMax-M2?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.4 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or MiniMax-M2?

MiniMax-M2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 39.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax-M2 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.

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