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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax M2

Updated October 21, 2026. 39 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

Replace Claude Haiku 4.5 Replace MiniMax M2
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
Coding
49.8
Overall
16.9
Output $/M
$5.00
31
MiniMax M2MiniMax
Coding
45.3
Overall
18.6
Output $/M
$1.02
8
vs boards won of 39 shared

Decision reading

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 for coding: it scores 49.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 45.3 for MiniMax M2.

Pick MiniMax M2 when output tokens cost 4.9x less, or when the context window is larger, 205K against 200K tokens.

Model AClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropic49.8/1003 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M2MiniMax45.3/1002 independent benchmarks$0.702 per solved task
Shared results
39
Claude Haiku 4.5 only
55
MiniMax M2 only
10
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Haiku 4.5 49.8 from 3 benchmarks, MiniMax M2 45.3 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Reasoning, 12.7 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena Text: expert: Claude Haiku 4.5 1443 against MiniMax M2 1338, 17.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Haiku 4.5 $5.00 against MiniMax M2 $1.02 per million output tokens, 4.9x apart.
Context window
Claude Haiku 4.5 takes 200K tokens, MiniMax M2 205K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Haiku 4.5BarsMiniMax M2Ties
Coding60
Intelligence01
Agentic work10
Reasoning30
Math20
Knowledge40
Web design07
General150
All shared boards318
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index60
Coding benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
SWE-bench Verified66.6%61.0%Claude Haiku 4.5
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench coding48.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev13301297Claude Haiku 4.5
AA Coding Index43.9Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)41.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)66.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)11.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)7.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)43.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured82.6%Only MiniMax M2 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured25.8%Only MiniMax M2 measured
Terminal-Bench35.5%30.0%Claude Haiku 4.5
WeirdML45.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: coding14541371Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: software and IT14391373Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena WebDev: React1326Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML13181306Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
AA Intelligence Index16.918.6MiniMax M2
Epoch Capabilities Index142.2Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
AA Agentic Index8.0Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench research42.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench browser40.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench long agentic11.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)31.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)5.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)10.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)22.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured86.8%Only MiniMax M2 measured
BALROG31.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
DeepResearch Bench45.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vending-Bench 2$459$161Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
GPQA Diamond72.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench reasoning61.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)46.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured77.7%Only MiniMax M2 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured13.7%Only MiniMax M2 measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)71.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI47.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI-24.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Chess puzzles8.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14211357Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: expert14431338Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14351376Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
AIME82.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MGSM (Vals AI)92.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
AA Math IndexNot measured78.3Only MiniMax M2 measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured78.3%Only MiniMax M2 measured
OTIS Mock AIME66.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MATH level 596.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: math13981351Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work14301368Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
MMLU Pro78.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)81.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)56.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)60.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)67.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)62.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)79.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)32.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured82.0%Only MiniMax M2 measured
SimpleQA Verified13.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: science14061348Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13941367Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: legal and government14001349Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: business and finance14001336Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index07
Web design benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
Design Arena: websites11221144MiniMax M2
Design Arena: UI components11001136MiniMax M2
Design Arena: game dev10971119MiniMax M2
Design Arena: data viz11241140MiniMax M2
Design Arena: 3D10721098MiniMax M2
Design Arena: all code categories11151135MiniMax M2
Design Arena: SVG10251098MiniMax M2
Design Arena: ASCII art1139Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench design59.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index150
General benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
LiveBench data analysis59.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)54.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)31.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)85.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vals Multimodal Index42.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
IFBenchNot measured72.3%Only MiniMax M2 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured64.3%Only MiniMax M2 measured
DTBench73.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMCA30.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ExploitBench13.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text13971340Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: instruction following14141329Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: creative writing13711286Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: English14141364Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: non-English13771313Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: Chinese14181366Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: German13741357Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: Japanese1338Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: Korean1346Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: French14111336Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: Spanish14211326Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: Russian13811330Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: Polish13431312Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: multi-turn14091361Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: longer queries14271331Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: writing and language13861295Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13691298Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Document1420Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.0035Fits in one request
MiniMax M2$0.0008Fits in one request

MiniMax M2 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.065Fits in one request
MiniMax M2$0.016Fits in one request

MiniMax M2 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.250Exceeds the context window
MiniMax M2$0.061Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Haiku 4.5MiniMax M2
MakerAnthropicMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedOctober 15, 2025October 23, 2025
Context window200K205K
Input $/Mtok$1.00$0.255
Output $/Mtok$5.00$1.02
Coding index49.845.3
Independent measurements behind it32
Cost per solved task$0.56$0.702
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than MiniMax M2 for coding?

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 for coding: it scores 49.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 45.3 for MiniMax M2. Pick MiniMax M2 when output tokens cost 4.9x less, or when the context window is larger, 205K against 200K tokens.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2?

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2 costs $0.255 and $1.02. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $0.56 and MiniMax M2 $0.702.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2?

MiniMax M2, with 205K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax M2 comparison based on?

39 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Haiku 4.5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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