Claude Opus 4.1 vs MiniMax M2.5
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against MiniMax M2.5 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 205K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
MiniMax M2.5Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
MiniMax M2.5 is 63x 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 M2.5
Input
$0.30
50× cheaper
Output
$1.20
63× cheaper
MiniMax M2.5 is cheaper on both — 50× input, 63× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
56%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 26.3x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.1
MiniMax M2.5
61%Vocabulary55%
87wSentence Length25w
0.54Hedging0.58
5.1Bold6.0
6.7Lists4.4
0.38Emoji0.01
1.68Headings1.11
0.13Transitions0.16
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