Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs MiniMax-M2.1

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.1 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 . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.1 MiniMax

38.9

Rank #178 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2.1 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 16.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 36.6% for MiniMax-M2.1.
  • MiniMax-M2.1 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-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index58.338.9
Released2026-04-142025-12-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M205K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked6622

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), MiniMax-M2.1: 40.4 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena WebDev15581384
LMArena Coding15181421
ALE-Bench1,323623.83
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), MiniMax-M2.1: 27.9 (#98)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
Terminal-Bench80.2%36.6%
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), MiniMax-M2.1: 16.6 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
NYT Connections (extended)39%11.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061411
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
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-M2.1: 38.3 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Math14991397
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-M2.1: 38.3 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%11.8%
LMArena Expert15211431
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), MiniMax-M2.1: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
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-M2.1: 50.0 (#128)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Non-English14801378
LMArena Chinese15311430
LMArena French15031404
LMArena German14951381
LMArena Japanese14721287
LMArena Korean14641298
LMArena Russian14941387
LMArena Spanish14951397

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), MiniMax-M2.1: 73.8 (#112)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Instruction Following14981400

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Longer Query15051416

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), MiniMax-M2.1: 58.3 (#120)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M2.1
LMArena Text14901392
LMArena Creative Writing14861361
LMArena Multi-Turn15051396
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than MiniMax-M2.1?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.1 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-M2.1?

MiniMax-M2.1 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-M2.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 40.4 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-M2.1 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.

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