Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 5
MiniMax M1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 5 has the edge — newer, major provider backing.
MiniMax M1 is 15x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
17× cheaper
Output
$1.65
15× cheaper
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 17× input, 15× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
MiniMax M1 uses 6.1x more emoji
Claude Opus 5
MiniMax M1
54%Vocabulary53%
21wSentence Length17w
0.40Hedging0.51
3.9Bold7.4
1.9Lists6.2
0.02Emoji0.10
0.71Headings0.86
0.05Transitions0.03
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