Claude Opus 4.5 vs MiniMax M3
Compare Claude Opus 4.5 by Anthropic against MiniMax M3 by MiniMax, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.5
MiniMax M3Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.5
Input
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Output
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MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
58%
MiniMax M3 uses 7.6x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.5
MiniMax M3
64%Vocabulary55%
55wSentence Length24w
0.86Hedging0.52
5.8Bold5.2
4.5Lists3.0
0.15Emoji1.15
1.59Headings1.21
0.05Transitions0.02
Based on 24 + 27 text responses
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