Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
Compare Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic against MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 by MiniMax, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 5
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
Input
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Output
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Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
69%
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 uses 4.0x more emoji
Claude Opus 5
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
54%Vocabulary48%
21wSentence Length20w
0.40Hedging0.56
3.9Bold3.1
1.9Lists0.8
0.02Emoji0.07
0.71Headings0.73
0.05Transitions0.12
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