Claude Opus 4 vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude Opus 4 by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
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
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
74%
Claude Opus 4 uses 8.4x more transitions
Claude Opus 4
MiniMax M1
64%Vocabulary53%
62wSentence Length17w
0.52Hedging0.51
4.4Bold7.4
9.1Lists6.2
0.11Emoji0.10
1.87Headings0.86
0.27Transitions0.03
Based on 16 + 14 text responses
Research
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