Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M1
Claude 3.7 SonnetRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M1 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
MiniMax M1 is 9.1x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
10× cheaper
Output
$1.65
9.1× cheaper
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 10× input, 9.1× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
26%
MiniMax M1 uses 10.4x more emoji
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
MiniMax M1
62%Vocabulary53%
35wSentence Length17w
0.99Hedging0.51
1.2Bold7.4
4.3Lists6.2
0.00Emoji0.10
1.78Headings0.86
0.23Transitions0.03
Based on 13 + 14 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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