Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs MiniMax M1
Claude Sonnet 4 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 6 categories and MiniMax M1 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where MiniMax M1 leads 41.4 to 33.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 46.9% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 69.4% for MiniMax M1.
- MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
- MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
- MiniMax M1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1359 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1339 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1361 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | 1317 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1363 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | 1353 |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | 1312 |
| IFEval | 84% | — |
Long Context MiniMax M1 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1326 |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1335 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than MiniMax M1?
Claude Sonnet 4 and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and MiniMax M1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.