# 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.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-minimax-01
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## 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.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 68.5 | 32.8 |
| Rank | 3 | — |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Input $/M | $4 | $0.20 |
| Output $/M | $20 | $1.10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 54.4% | — |
| CursorBench | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1820 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 62.3% | — |
| SciCode | 66.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1545 | — |
| MirrorCode | 77.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 73.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30.6% | — |

## Reasoning

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 92.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 42.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 88.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.7% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1545 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 71% | — |
| DTBench | 98.9% | — |
| LMCA | 68.2% | — |

## Math

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 95% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |

## Knowledge

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 72.2% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 23.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1564 | — |

## Multimodal

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 83.3% | — |

## Multilingual

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1513 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1572 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1532 | — |

## Instruction Following

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1535 | — |

## Long Context

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1540 | — |

## Writing & Preference

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

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1518 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1538 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2050 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1520 | — |

## FAQ

### 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.