Model comparison
Claude Opus 4 vs MiniMax M1
Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax M1 costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax M1 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 53.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 61.1% for Claude Opus 4 and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
- 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 | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 32K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 56 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1359 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1339 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| DTBench | 81.6% | — |
| LMCA | 37.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |
Math Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1361 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1386 | 1317 |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | — |
| GeoBench | 49% | — |
| VPCT | 38% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1372 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1331 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1389 | 1353 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1312 |
| IFEval | 91.8% | — |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1326 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1335 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | — |
| WildBench | 85.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4 better than MiniMax M1?
Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 40.3 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax M1 costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 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 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Claude Opus 4 or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 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 and MiniMax M1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.