Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs MiniMax-01

Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.5

Rank #3 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

32.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 79.5 to 21.7.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.
  • MiniMax-01 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index68.532.8
Released2026-09-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$4$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$20$1.10
Results tracked352

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.4 (#1), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
FrontierCode54.4%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1820—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
LMArena Coding1545—
MirrorCode77.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#13), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
APEX-Agents73.5%—
GDP.pdf30.6%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 79.5 (#2), MiniMax-01: 21.7

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)88.5%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
EBR-Bench71.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1545—
Mystery Game Puzzles71%—
DTBench98.9%—
LMCA68.2%—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 92.4 (#2), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)91.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 495%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 66.6 (#9), MiniMax-01: 33.1

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond90.6%—
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1564—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 56.5 (#2), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.8 (#1), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1513—
LMArena Chinese1572—
LMArena Russian1532—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.1 (#2), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1535—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.3 (#18), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1540—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.7 (#3), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Text1518—
LMArena Creative Writing1538—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—
LMArena Multi-Turn1520—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than MiniMax-01?

Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5.5 lists at $4 and $20.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-01 does, with 1M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 35 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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