What is the difference between Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is developed by Anthropic while MiniMax M2 is developed by MiniMax. Claude Haiku 4.5 has a 200K token context window vs MiniMax M2's 205K. in 25 community votes on Rival, Claude Haiku 4.5 wins 71% of head-to-head matchups. These results are based on blind head-to-head voting across 35 challenges.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax M2?

Based on 25 community votes on Rival, Claude Haiku 4.5 wins 71% of head-to-head matchups against MiniMax M2. Claude Haiku 4.5 is strongest in Reasoning, Web Design, Image Generation.

How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost compared to MiniMax M2?

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/M input tokens and MiniMax M2 costs $0/M input tokens. MiniMax M2 is $1.00/M cheaper per input. The more expensive model wins 71% of duels, so the premium may be justified by quality.

How are Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax M2 votes collected on Rival?

Rival presents both models' outputs side-by-side in blind duels. Voters see the responses but don't know which model produced each one, eliminating brand bias. 25 votes have been collected for this pair across 35 challenges. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset.

Updated Oct 2025

Claude Haiku 4.5vsMiniMax M2

Claude Haiku 4.5 wins 71% of 25 blind community votes against MiniMax M2 on Rival.

Claude Haiku 4.5 and MiniMax M2 compared across 35 shared prompts
Spec	Claude Haiku 4.5	MiniMax M2
Win rate	71%	29%
Input price	$1/M tokens	Free
Output price	$5/M tokens	Free
Context window	200K tokens	205K tokens
Weights	Closed	Open
Free API (OpenRouter)	No	No
Released	Oct 2025	Oct 2025
SWE-bench Verified	73.3%	69.4%