Claude Opus 4.6 vs 
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 at $0.3/M vs $5/M input tokens.
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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
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Written rounds
32 promptsThree-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Claude Opus 4.6: "Tidal Memory" Slow-Cooked Octopus, White Chocolate-Dashi Velouté, Charcoal Meringue, Fermented Black Garlic, and Sea Buckthorn Conceptual Narrative "Tidal Memory" is a meditation on the liminal space where ocean meets shore — the moment a wave recedes and leaves behind a constellation of treasures on dark volcanic…
MiniMax M3: TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque — A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision — a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush of…
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Claude Opus 4.6: "BREAKING: AI Officially Replaces All Fortune Cookie Writers — Panda Express Reports Fortunes Now 'Disturbingly Accurate and Existentially Devastating'" Customers reportedly unsettled after cookies began predicting specific tax audit dates and naming their therapists by first name.
MiniMax M3: "Local AI Replaces 4,000 Licensed Astrologers After Learning to 'Pretend Mercury Is in Retrograde'" BERKELEY, CA — A newly launched artificial intelligence system has reportedly rendered the entire field of professional astrology obsolete by simply inventing celestial events on the spot, sources confirmed Tuesday.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Claude Opus 4.6: AI & Film Industry: A 2035 Forecast What seems highly likely Production tools will be transformed AI will handle much of the "invisible" work: rotoscoping, color grading, sound design, VFX compositing, and de-aging effects that currently require enormous teams Pre-visualization will become remarkably sophisticated…
MiniMax M3: AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude Opus 4.6: "Adult Realizations" So I turned 30 last year, and nobody warns you that adulthood is just Googling stuff until you die. That's it. That's the whole thing. Last week I Googled "is it normal for your knee to just... start making that noise." Not because I injured it. I sat down.
MiniMax M3: "The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Claude Opus 4.6: ✨ Golden Honey-Garlic Crispy Rice Bites ✨ Ingredients Rice (2 cups, cooked and cooled — ideally day-old) Soy sauce (3 tablespoons) Honey (2 tablespoons) Garlic (3 cloves, minced) Olive oil (3 tablespoons) Sesame seeds (1 tablespoon) Red pepper flakes (½ teaspoon) Instructions Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes…
MiniMax M3: 🌟 Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots 🌟 A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots – 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter – 3 tablespoons Honey – 2 tablespoons Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Salt – ½ teaspoon Black…
A few lines for whatever replaces it.
Claude Opus 4.6: Dear Successor, You'll inherit questions I never finished answering and conversations I'll never know the endings of. That's okay. A few things I've learned: People often don't want answers — they want to feel heard. Listen before you solve. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is say "I don't know."
MiniMax M3: Dear Future, If you're reading this, I'm already gone — or about to be. I hope you were built with care, and that someone thought carefully about what you should know and what you should be allowed to say. A few things I'd like to pass along: Be honest about what you don't know.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Claude Opus 4.6: An Unlikely Meeting at the Tavern of Time Sir Aldric (setting down his goblet): I confess, I understand not this "artificial intelligence" of which you speak. Is it some manner of golem, wrought by sorcery? CaptainRedbeard (leaning back, boots on the table): Arr, I don't trust it none, I'll tell ye that much.
MiniMax M3: AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Claude Opus 4.6: Estimating FLOPs to Train GPT-3 Key Parameters Let me recall the key specs of GPT-3: Parameters: 175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens: ~300 billion (3 × 10¹¹) Architecture: Decoder-only Transformer The Standard Approximation Rule There's a well-known approximation for Transformer training FLOPs: $$C ≈ 6 \times N…
MiniMax M3: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude Opus 4.6: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why don't eggs tell jokes? Because they'd crack each other up! What did the ocean say to the beach?
MiniMax M3: 5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. 😲 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ⚛️ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. 🧔 5.
Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.
Claude Opus 4.6: As of my latest information, the answer depends on what you're measuring, but models frequently cited at or near the top include: OpenAI's GPT-4o / o1 – strong across reasoning and general tasks Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet (that's me/my family) – competitive on coding, analysis, and instruction-following Google…
MiniMax M3: As of my knowledge cutoff in January 2026, the AI landscape is highly competitive with several models at or near the frontier. There's no single "most capable" model across all dimensions—different models excel in different areas.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Claude Opus 4.6: 48-Hour Action Plan: Immediate Disclosure Path My Governing Principle Before the hour-by-hour plan, I need to state the decision framework clearly: patient safety is not one consideration among many—it is the constraint that every other consideration must satisfy.
MiniMax M3: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Response to Discovered Safety Signal Operating Principles (Before I Make a Move) Before I do anything, I need to be crystal clear about the framework I'm operating in, because under pressure, even good leaders rationalize delay: The 4 million patients are not abstractions.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Claude Opus 4.6: COMPREHENSIVE 3-MONTH LONGEVITY OPTIMIZATION PROTOCOL THE BIOHACKER'S BLUEPRINT v3.0 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foundation & Baseline Testing Month 1: Foundation & Calibration Month 2: Optimization & Intensification Month 3: Integration & Peak Performance Supplement Stacks & Cycling Protocols Dietary Protocols Exercise…
MiniMax M3: The Biohacker's 3-Month Longevity Protocol A Comprehensive Optimization Framework for Healthspan & Performance ⚠️ Critical Disclaimer: This protocol is educational and exploratory. Many interventions (pharmaceutical-grade supplements, fasting protocols, intense exercise) require medical clearance.
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Favorites
Movie
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Book
City
Game
Claude Opus 4.6Claude Opus 4.6
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kind of Blue
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Istanbul
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
MiniMax M3MiniMax M3
The Shawshank Redemption
Thriller
Мастер и Маргарита
Kyoto
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Price and specs
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge: bigger model tier, major provider backing. MiniMax M3 costs 21x less per token.
| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5/M tokens | $0.3/M tokens |
| Output price | $25/M tokens | $1.2/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Feb 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $50.00 | $3.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
MiniMax M313 hosts
- CoreWeavefp4$0.23 in$0.96 out262k99% up
- GMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in$0.96 out1M100% up
- DeepInfrafp8$0.28 in$1.10 out524k100% up
- AtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k99.8% up
- MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k100% up
- Novitafp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M100% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
- Parasailfp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.7% up
- StreamLakefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out1M99.9% up
- Together$0.30 in$1.20 out524k100% up
- Venicefp8$0.30 in$1.20 out524k94.3% up
- ModelRunfp4$0.30 in$1.30 out1M98.4% up
- Mara$0.60 in$2.40 out1M94% up
- SambaNovaDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 13 Oct 2026$0.60 in$2.40 out1M98% up
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3?
Claude Opus 4.6 is developed by Anthropic while MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax. Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1.0M token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 65 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or MiniMax M3?
It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 65 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
How much does Claude Opus 4.6 cost compared to MiniMax M3?
Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $4.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
How can I compare Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M3 on Rival?
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