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Claude Opus 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.7

Claude Opus 4.5 leads MiniMax M2.7 on coding, 44.0 to 36.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M2.7 costs 20.8x less per output token ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 62 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Opus 4.5 Replace MiniMax M2.7
Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic
Coding
44.0
Overall
55.7
Output $/M
$25.00
58
MiniMax M2.7MiniMax
Coding
36.2
Overall
44.5
Output $/M
$1.20
4
vs boards won of 62 shared

Claude Opus 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7: which to pick

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 for coding: it scores 44.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 20.8x cheaper ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $1.37).

Model AClaude Opus 4.5Anthropic44.0/1003 independent benchmarks$1.37 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M2.7MiniMax36.2/1003 independent benchmarks$0.64 per solved task
Shared results
62
Claude Opus 4.5 only
50
MiniMax M2.7 only
12
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

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 Opus 4.5 44.0 from 3 benchmarks, MiniMax M2.7 36.2 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 12.4 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
ProofBench: Claude Opus 4.5 36.0% against MiniMax M2.7 3.0%, 33.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Opus 4.5 $25.00 against MiniMax M2.7 $1.20 per million output tokens, 20.8x apart.
Context window
Claude Opus 4.5 takes 200K tokens, MiniMax M2.7 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 Opus 4.5BarsMiniMax M2.7Ties
Coding110
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning42
Math40
Knowledge100
Web design80
General182
All shared boards584
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index110
Coding benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
SWE-bench Verified79.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
SWE-bench (full test set)52.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev14941399Claude Opus 4.5
AA Coding IndexNot measured52.6Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)83.7%79.9%Claude Opus 4.5
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)76.4%73.8%Claude Opus 4.5
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)20.6%11.9%Claude Opus 4.5
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured8.7%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured48.7%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)87.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
SciCodeNot measured50.1%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)47.0%39.4%Claude Opus 4.5
Terminal-Bench63.1%45.1%Claude Opus 4.5
GSO-Bench26.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
WeirdML63.7%37.0%Claude Opus 4.5
Cybench82.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured599.3Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LMArena Text: coding15031454Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: software and IT14831446Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena WebDev: React14781388Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena WebDev: HTML15101401Claude Opus 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
AA Intelligence Index29.122.8Claude Opus 4.5
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1145.8Claude Opus 4.5
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured15.3Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1159Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1156Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1188Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1176Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured27.9%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured6.9%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured10.6%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured28.4%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom89.5%84.8%Claude Opus 4.5
METR time horizons75.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Remote Labor Index3.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
GDPval45.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
BALROG43.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
DeepResearch Bench54.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
OSWorld66.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Vending-Bench 2$4,967Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)77.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
MCP Atlas69.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index42
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
GPQA Diamond85.9%86.6%MiniMax M2.7
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)86.6%87.4%MiniMax M2.7
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)30.1%29.6%Claude Opus 4.5
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)86.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI80.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI-237.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
SimpleBench62.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Chess puzzles14.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Mystery game puzzles22.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
EBR-bench14.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
VPCT40.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14761422Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: expert14871443Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14821441Claude Opus 4.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
AIME95.4%91.0%Claude Opus 4.5
MGSM (Vals AI)95.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
AA Math Index91.3Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)91.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
OTIS Mock AIME86.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 334.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
FrontierMath, tier 44.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
ProofBench36.0%3.0%Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: math14631421Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work14681437Claude Opus 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
MMLU Pro87.3%80.4%Claude Opus 4.5
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.6%84.0%Claude Opus 4.5
CaseLaw (Vals AI)62.6%60.9%Claude Opus 4.5
CorpFin (Vals AI)65.1%61.2%Claude Opus 4.5
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.9%66.6%Claude Opus 4.5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)95.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.2%34.4%Claude Opus 4.5
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)89.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
SimpleQA Verified45.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
GeoBench75.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: science14541416Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14441409Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: legal and government14591403Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: business and finance14481407Claude Opus 4.5
FACTS Benchmark Suite43.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
PRBench Finance46.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
PRBench Legal44.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Web design benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
Design Arena: websites12471242Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: UI components12361207Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: game dev12281209Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: data viz12431233Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: 3D12131194Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: all code categories12411233Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: SVG11801137Claude Opus 4.5
Design Arena: ASCII art11901136Claude Opus 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index182
General benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)52.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)85.3%79.9%Claude Opus 4.5
IFBench58.0%75.7%MiniMax M2.7
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)77.3%78.3%MiniMax M2.7
DTBench89.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
LMCA44.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
CL-bench21.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Furniture assembly28.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
ExploitBenchNot measured13.3%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LMArena Text14511405Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: instruction following14781405Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: creative writing14451354Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: English14611426Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: non-English14381382Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Chinese14701442Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: German14491398Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Japanese14171260Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Korean14241314Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: French14711424Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Spanish14571402Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Russian14471383Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: Polish14391387Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: multi-turn14661412Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: longer queries14791418Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: writing and language14521376Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14341360Claude Opus 4.5
LMArena Document1462Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
MultiChallenge59.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7Leader
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 Opus 4.5$0.018Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.7$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.5$0.325Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.7$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.5$1.25Exceeds the context window
MiniMax M2.7$0.072Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2.7 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 Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.7
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7
MakerAnthropicMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedNovember 24, 2025March 18, 2026
Context window200K205K
Input $/Mtok$5.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$25.00$1.20
Coding index44.036.2
Independent measurements behind it33
Cost per solved task$1.37$0.64
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than MiniMax M2.7 for coding?

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 for coding: it scores 44.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7. Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 20.8x cheaper ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $1.37).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Opus 4.5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Opus 4.5 costs $1.37 and MiniMax M2.7 $0.64.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

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

How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.7 comparison based on?

62 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2.7's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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