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Claude Opus 4.7 vs MiniMax M3

Claude Opus 4.7 leads MiniMax M3 on coding, 67.5 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; 84 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Opus 4.7 Replace MiniMax M3
Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic
Coding
67.5
Overall
71.6
Output $/M
$25.00
75
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
9
vs boards won of 84 shared

Claude Opus 4.7 or MiniMax M3: which to pick

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for coding: it scores 67.5 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 $2.95).

Model AClaude Opus 4.7Anthropic67.5/1004 independent benchmarks$2.95 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
Shared results
84
Claude Opus 4.7 only
19
MiniMax M3 only
32
Like-for-like categories
7 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 4.7 67.5 from 4 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 21.1 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vending-Bench 2: Claude Opus 4.7 $10,937 against MiniMax M3 $2,158, 54.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Opus 4.7 $25.00 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 20.8x apart.
Context window
Claude Opus 4.7 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 4.7BarsMiniMax M3Ties
Coding140
Intelligence20
Agentic work81
Reasoning103
Math40
Knowledge82
General293
All shared boards759
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index140
Coding benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench codingNot measured70.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena WebDev15581482Claude Opus 4.7
AA Coding Index73.658.6Claude Opus 4.7
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)85.1%82.2%Claude Opus 4.7
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)82.0%75.0%Claude Opus 4.7
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured1.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)71.0%47.6%Claude Opus 4.7
Code migration (Vals AI)43.9%19.9%Claude Opus 4.7
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)68.5%53.6%Claude Opus 4.7
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)54.5%42.4%Claude Opus 4.7
Terminal-Bench80.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
FrontierCode38.5%14.7%Claude Opus 4.7
GSO-Bench44.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
WeirdML76.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
MirrorCode31.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured640.0Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: coding15191470Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: software and IT15161466Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: React15601478Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: HTML15541455Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: from an image15771470Claude Opus 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
AA Intelligence Index40.729.2Claude Opus 4.7
Epoch Capabilities Index156.8146.9Claude Opus 4.7
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index81
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
AA Agentic Index38.629.5Claude Opus 4.7
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1200Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1169Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1159Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1159Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1130Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1181Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1039Only 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)51.5%48.3%Claude Opus 4.7
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)23.7%20.6%Claude Opus 4.7
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)38.5%29.8%Claude Opus 4.7
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)63.7%47.8%Claude Opus 4.7
τ²-Bench Telecom88.6%88.9%MiniMax M3
APEX-Agents49.2%37.7%Claude Opus 4.7
OSWorld 2.018.2%4.6%Claude Opus 4.7
PostTrainBench28.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Vending-Bench 2$10,937$2,158Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Search1230Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index103
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
GPQA Diamond90.2%92.7%MiniMax M3
LiveBench reasoningNot measured74.5%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)85.5%81.2%Claude Opus 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)91.4%92.9%MiniMax M3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)42.3%39.0%Claude Opus 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.2%90.9%MiniMax M3
ARC-AGI93.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ARC-AGI-275.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
SimpleBench61.7%45.8%Claude Opus 4.7
Chess puzzles41.0%13.0%Claude Opus 4.7
Mystery game puzzles28.0%8.0%Claude Opus 4.7
EBR-bench19.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15061447Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: expert15211461Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15081455Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: diagrams13361266Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: homework13371268Claude Opus 4.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 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 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
AIME96.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
OTIS Mock AIME97.8%71.1%Claude Opus 4.7
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 370.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
FrontierMath, tier 431.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ProofBench54.0%18.0%Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: math14981429Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: mathematical work15091448Claude Opus 4.7
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 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
MMLU Pro89.9%84.2%Claude Opus 4.7
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.3%85.4%MiniMax M3
CaseLaw (Vals AI)68.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.1%68.1%MiniMax M3
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.3%72.7%Claude Opus 4.7
MortgageTax (Vals AI)70.3%68.4%Claude Opus 4.7
MedCode (Vals AI)54.9%46.3%Claude Opus 4.7
SimpleQA Verified51.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: science15081452Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14951441Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: legal and government15041437Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: business and finance14901434Claude Opus 4.7
FACTS Benchmark Suite45.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1257Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1243Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1211Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1236Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1208Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1246Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1160Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1161Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench designNot measured66.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index293
General benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax 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)56.1%50.6%Claude Opus 4.7
MedScribe (Vals AI)83.0%87.3%MiniMax M3
Vals Multimodal Index67.4%60.0%Claude Opus 4.7
IFBench58.6%82.9%MiniMax M3
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.7%83.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench94.7%78.9%Claude Opus 4.7
LMCA52.2%33.7%Claude Opus 4.7
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured55.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Furniture assembly33.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ExploitBench26.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Text14901433Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: instruction following14981433Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: creative writing14861404Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision13171251Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: English14961443Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: non-English14801420Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Chinese15311466Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: German14951428Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Japanese14741380Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Korean14641373Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: French15031444Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Spanish14941433Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Russian14941426Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Polish14891423Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: multi-turn15051443Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: longer queries15051446Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: writing and language14921419Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14741403Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: English13221263Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: Chinese13711311Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: reading text13271259Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: humor13091235Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: recognizing things12781197Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: creative writing13261234Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Document14951435Claude Opus 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7MiniMax 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 4.7$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 4.7$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 4.7$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 4.7 and MiniMax M3
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Opus 4.7MiniMax M3
MakerAnthropicMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 16, 2026May 31, 2026
Context window1M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$5.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$25.00$1.20
Coding index67.539.2
Independent measurements behind it46
Cost per solved task$2.95$0.56
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than MiniMax M3 for coding?

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for coding: it scores 67.5 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 $2.95).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or MiniMax M3?

Claude Opus 4.7 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 4.7 costs $2.95 and MiniMax M3 $0.56.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.7 or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.7 vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?

84 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.7'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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