Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs MiniMax-M2.7

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.7 costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 5 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.3 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 46.1% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 37% for MiniMax-M2.7.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 200K.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index40.837.7
Released2025-05-222026-03-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K205K
Max output64K131K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$15$1.20
Results tracked5830

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
SciCode40%47%
WeirdML46.1%37%
LMArena Coding14141454
ALE-Bench655.35599.25
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1398
GSO4.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
CritPt0.3%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721422
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69145.85
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
ARC-AGI-140%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Math13751420
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench—3%
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%12.9%
LMArena Expert13721444
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), MiniMax-M2.7: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English13331382
LMArena Chinese13501441
LMArena French13631421
LMArena German13311398
LMArena Japanese13021262
LMArena Korean12911313
LMArena Russian13551383
LMArena Spanish13571403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following13761405
IFEval84%—

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query13981419
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text13511405
LMArena Creative Writing13451354
LMArena Multi-Turn13761412
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than MiniMax-M2.7?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.7 costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M2.7 does, with 205K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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