Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs MiniMax M2
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic against MiniMax M2 by MiniMax, in 54 community votes, claude sonnet 4.5 wins 59% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 205K, tested across 27 shared challenges. Updated June 2026.
Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or MiniMax M2?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the better choice overall, winning 59% of 54 blind community votes on Rival. Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3/M input tokens vs $0/M for MiniMax M2. Context windows: 200K vs 205K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude Sonnet 4.5 and MiniMax M2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is made by anthropic while MiniMax M2 is from minimax. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a 200K token context window compared to MiniMax M2's 205K. On pricing, Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3/M input tokens vs $0/M for MiniMax M2. In community voting, In 54 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 59% of head-to-head duels.
In 54 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 59% of head-to-head duels. Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads in Reasoning, Image Generation, Conversation, while MiniMax M2 leads in Web Design, Analysis. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 54+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.5. In 54 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 59% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.5 for Conversation, Image Generation, Reasoning. Pick MiniMax M2 for Analysis, Web Design.
Style Comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses 6.6x more sentence length
