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Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax-01

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 22.4.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • MiniMax-01 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5MiniMax-01
ProviderAnthropicMiniMax
Noometry Index67.833.4
Released2026-07-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K900K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.10
Results tracked572

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
LMArena Coding1534—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), MiniMax-01: 22.4

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1526—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1531—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), MiniMax-01: 33.6

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1557—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1501—
LMArena Chinese1574—
LMArena French1519—
LMArena German1524—
LMArena Japanese1516—
LMArena Korean1521—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1517—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1515—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5MiniMax-01
LMArena Text1507—
LMArena Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—
LMArena Multi-Turn1499—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than MiniMax-01?

Claude Opus 5 has enough public results to be ranked (#4); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 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 lists at $5 and $25.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-01 does, with 1M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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