Claude Opus 4.1 vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
MiniMax M1
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
MiniMax M1 is 45x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
50× cheaper
Output
$1.65
45× cheaper
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 50× input, 45× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 5.0x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4.1
MiniMax M1
61%Vocabulary53%
87wSentence Length17w
0.54Hedging0.51
5.1Bold7.4
6.7Lists6.2
0.38Emoji0.10
1.68Headings0.86
0.13Transitions0.03
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