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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs MiniMax-M3

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 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 . 40 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.4

Rank #17 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.5

Rank #81 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 10 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.5 to 39.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GBAEval: 43.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 0.9% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index58.443.5
Released2026-04-142026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K512K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked6641

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.9 (#10), MiniMax-M3: 41.5 (#111)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
FrontierCode38.5%14.7%
LMArena WebDev15571482
SciCode54.5%47.1%
LMArena Coding15191470
ALE-Bench1,323640.02
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#8), MiniMax-M3: 22.5 (#121)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents49.2%37.7%
OSWorld 2.018.2%4.6%
GBAEval43.8%0.9%
Vending-Bench 210,9372,158
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.7 (#24), MiniMax-M3: 29.3 (#83)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
SimpleBench61.7%45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)39%65.1%
CritPt12%3.7%
Chess Puzzles30%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts15071447
Mystery Game Puzzles28%8%
DTBench94.7%78.9%
LMCA52.2%33.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39147
ForecastBench60.361.4
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Surface Evolver Bench—55%

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.5 (#20), MiniMax-M3: 39.1 (#83)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%71.1%
ProofBench54%18%
LMArena Math14991432
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#20), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#32)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond90.2%90.9%
LMArena Expert15211462
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.5 (#29), MiniMax-M3: 39.5 (#45)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision13171254
LMArena Document14951435
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.5 (#9), MiniMax-M3: 53.2 (#70)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14811420
LMArena Chinese15301465
LMArena French15051445
LMArena German14941424
LMArena Japanese14721381
LMArena Korean14661372
LMArena Russian14941430
LMArena Spanish14971431

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.6 (#9), MiniMax-M3: 75.7 (#56)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14981433

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.1 (#24), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#68)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query15051445

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.3 (#8), MiniMax-M3: 62.3 (#79)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14911433
LMArena Creative Writing14861405
EQ-Bench 413111150
LMArena Multi-Turn15061441
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than MiniMax-M3?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 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-M3?

MiniMax-M3 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-M3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 41.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax-M3 share?

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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