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Updated Jun 2026

Claude Opus 4vsMiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 is cheaper than Claude Opus 4 at $0.3/M vs $15/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4 and MiniMax M3 compared across 52 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4MiniMax M3
Input price$15/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$75/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMay 2025Jun 2026
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
Claude Opus 4
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

MiniMax M3 costs 63x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
50× cheaper
Output
$1.20
63× cheaper

MiniMax M3 is cheaper on both: 50× input, 63× output.

Where to run it

13 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Opus 41 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Google Vertex AI$15.00 in·$75.00 out·200k·99.9% up
MiniMax M312 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·100% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.3% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·99.4% upMiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.6% upNNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.4% upPParasailfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.3% up
6 more hostsFewer hosts
SStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.1% upTTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.8% upVVenicefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·100% upSSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·99.6% upMModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·99.7% upAAtlasCloudfp8degraded$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·98.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 8 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
42%

Claude Opus 4 uses 9.0x more transitions

Claude Opus 4
MiniMax M3
65%Vocabulary55%
57wSentence Length24w
0.67Hedging0.52
3.8Bold5.2
6.8Lists3.0
1.18Emoji1.15
1.42Headings1.21
0.22Transitions0.02
Based on 27 + 27 text responses
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