Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M1
Claude 3.7 Thinking SonnetRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M1 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
MiniMax M1 is 18x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
20× cheaper
Output
$1.65
18× cheaper
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 18× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
MiniMax M1 uses 10.4x more emoji
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
MiniMax M1
61%Vocabulary53%
49wSentence Length17w
0.64Hedging0.51
2.2Bold7.4
4.5Lists6.2
0.00Emoji0.10
1.81Headings0.86
0.21Transitions0.03
Based on 21 + 14 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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