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Claude Opus 4.6 vs MiniMax M3

Claude Opus 4.6 leads MiniMax M3 on coding, 57.2 to 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M3 costs 20.8x less per output token ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 87 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Opus 4.6 Replace MiniMax M3
Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic
Coding
57.2
Overall
66.0
Output $/M
$25.00
79
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
8
vs boards won of 87 shared

Claude Opus 4.6 or MiniMax M3: which to pick

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 4 benchmarks against 6.

Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 20.8x cheaper ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.56 against $1.56).

Model AClaude Opus 4.6Anthropic57.2/1004 independent benchmarks$1.56 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
Shared results
87
Claude Opus 4.6 only
23
MiniMax M3 only
29
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 4.6 57.2 from 4 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 20.7 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vending-Bench 2: Claude Opus 4.6 $8,018 against MiniMax M3 $2,158, 36.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Opus 4.6 $25.00 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 20.8x apart.
Context window
Claude Opus 4.6 takes 1M tokens, MiniMax M3 1.05M.

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 4.6BarsMiniMax M3Ties
Coding110
Intelligence20
Agentic work80
Reasoning103
Math40
Knowledge82
Web design80
General283
All shared boards798
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index110
Coding benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
SWE-bench Verified75.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual72.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LiveBench codingNot measured70.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev15471482Claude Opus 4.6
AA Coding IndexNot measured58.6Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)84.7%82.2%Claude Opus 4.6
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)78.2%75.0%Claude Opus 4.6
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured1.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)57.6%47.6%Claude Opus 4.6
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured19.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured53.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)Not measured33.3%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured9.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only MiniMax M3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured65.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SciCodeNot measured47.1%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)48.5%42.4%Claude Opus 4.6
Terminal-Bench79.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
FrontierCode26.6%14.7%Claude Opus 4.6
GSO-Bench41.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
WeirdML78.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Cybench93.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured640.0Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: coding15341470Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT15271466Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React15391478Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: HTML15591455Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena WebDev: from an image15431470Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
AA Intelligence Index31.929.2Claude Opus 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index155.7146.9Claude Opus 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured29.5Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps12061200Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps12201197Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps12071169Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: agents building Android apps11971159Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: agents building games12121158Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1130Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1181Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1028Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench researchNot measured68.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench browserNot measured8.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured12.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured48.3%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured20.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured29.8%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured47.8%Only MiniMax M3 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom92.1%88.9%Claude Opus 4.6
APEX-Agents46.3%37.7%Claude Opus 4.6
METR time horizons78.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Remote Labor Index4.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
OSWorld 2.0Not measured4.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
DeepResearch Bench55.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$8,018$2,158Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index103
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
GPQA Diamond89.7%92.7%MiniMax M3
LiveBench reasoningNot measured74.5%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.9%81.2%Claude Opus 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)89.6%92.9%MiniMax M3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)39.9%39.0%Claude Opus 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.5%90.9%MiniMax M3
ARC-AGI94.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI-269.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
SimpleBench67.6%45.8%Claude Opus 4.6
Chess puzzles21.0%13.0%Claude Opus 4.6
Mystery game puzzles25.0%8.0%Claude Opus 4.6
EBR-bench12.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15251447Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: expert15441461Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15301455Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams13401266Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: homework13371268Claude Opus 4.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
AIME95.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
OTIS Mock AIME94.4%71.1%Claude Opus 4.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 366.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
FrontierMath, tier 426.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
ProofBench50.0%18.0%Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: math15181429Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work15251448Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index82
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
MMLU Pro89.1%84.2%Claude Opus 4.6
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.3%85.4%MiniMax M3
CaseLaw (Vals AI)62.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)67.0%68.1%MiniMax M3
TaxEval (Vals AI)76.0%72.7%Claude Opus 4.6
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.5%68.4%Claude Opus 4.6
MedQA (Vals AI)95.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.1%46.3%Claude Opus 4.6
SimpleQA Verified47.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: science15191452Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare15041441Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: legal and government15121437Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14971434Claude Opus 4.6
FACTS Benchmark Suite41.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Web design benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
Design Arena: websites12911257Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: UI components12811242Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: game dev12771210Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: data viz12791236Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: 3D12731208Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: all code categories12881247Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: SVG12271161Claude Opus 4.6
Design Arena: ASCII art12551161Claude Opus 4.6
LiveBench designNot measured66.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index283
General benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench data analysisNot measured76.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured64.1%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)51.6%50.6%Claude Opus 4.6
MedScribe (Vals AI)86.7%87.3%MiniMax M3
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured60.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
IFBench53.1%82.9%MiniMax M3
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.0%83.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench91.2%78.9%Claude Opus 4.6
LMCA55.8%33.7%Claude Opus 4.6
CL-bench20.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured55.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Furniture assembly28.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
CL-bench Life17.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.6 measured
LMArena Text15011433Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following15211433Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing15051404Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision13161251Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: English15111443Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14881420Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Chinese15511466Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: German15001428Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Japanese14881380Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Korean14641373Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: French15121444Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish15101433Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Russian14971426Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: Polish14991423Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn15111443Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries15181446Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language15021419Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14921403Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: English13241263Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: Chinese13701311Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: reading text13261259Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: humor13141235Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: recognizing things12741197Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision: creative writing13311234Claude Opus 4.6
LMArena Document15071435Claude Opus 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3Leader
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 4.6$0.018Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.6$0.325Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.6$1.25Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 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 4.6 and MiniMax M3
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Opus 4.6MiniMax M3
MakerAnthropicMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedFebruary 4, 2026May 31, 2026
Context window1M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$5.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$25.00$1.20
Coding index57.239.2
Independent measurements behind it46
Cost per solved task$1.56$0.56
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than MiniMax M3 for coding?

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for coding: it scores 57.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 4 benchmarks against 6. Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 20.8x cheaper ($1.20 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.56 against $1.56).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or MiniMax M3?

Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Opus 4.6 costs $1.56 and MiniMax M3 $0.56.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.6 or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.6 vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?

87 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.6's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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