Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs MiniMax-01

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 66.0 to 33.6.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index61.933.4
Released2026-09-28—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.10
Results tracked322

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
LMArena Coding1513—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), MiniMax-01: 22.4

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1495—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1510—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), MiniMax-01: 33.6

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1540—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1452—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena Russian1451—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1495—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1498—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5MiniMax-01
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1474—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than MiniMax-01?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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