Claude Sonnet 5 vs MiniMax M1
Compare Claude Sonnet 5 by Anthropic against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 5
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 6.1x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
6.7× cheaper
Output
$1.65
6.1× cheaper
MiniMax M1 is cheaper on both — 6.7× input, 6.1× output
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Style Comparison
Similarity
45%
Claude Sonnet 5 uses 7.6x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 5
MiniMax M1
59%Vocabulary53%
35wSentence Length17w
0.53Hedging0.51
3.5Bold7.4
3.5Lists6.2
0.79Emoji0.10
1.25Headings0.86
0.06Transitions0.03
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