Claude Opus 4 vs MiniMax M3
Compare Claude Opus 4 by Anthropic against MiniMax M3 by MiniMax, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
MiniMax M3
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
MiniMax M3 is 63x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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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
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Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
Claude Opus 4 uses 11.2x more transitions
Claude Opus 4
MiniMax M3
64%Vocabulary55%
62wSentence Length24w
0.52Hedging0.52
4.4Bold5.2
9.1Lists3.0
0.11Emoji1.15
1.87Headings1.21
0.27Transitions0.02
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