Claude Opus 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.5
Compare Claude Opus 4.5 by Anthropic against MiniMax M2.5 by MiniMax, in 23 community votes, minimax m2.5 wins 61% of head-to-head duels, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Web Design: MiniMax M2.5 wins 62% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.5 wins 60% of votes
Reasoning: MiniMax M2.5 wins 100% of votes
Conversation: Claude Opus 4.5 and MiniMax M2.5 are tied
Our Verdict
MiniMax M2.5Winner
Claude Opus 4.5Runner-up
Pick MiniMax M2.5. In 23 blind votes, MiniMax M2.5 wins 61% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 for Image Generation. Pick MiniMax M2.5 for Reasoning, Web Design.
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API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.5
Input
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Output
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MiniMax M2.5
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
72%
Claude Opus 4.5 uses 10.4x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.5
MiniMax M2.5
64%Vocabulary55%
55wSentence Length25w
0.86Hedging0.58
5.8Bold6.0
4.5Lists4.4
0.15Emoji0.01
1.59Headings1.11
0.05Transitions0.16
Based on 24 + 23 text responses
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