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Claude Opus 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.7
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Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.5 wins on 5/5 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5 wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · general · coding.
Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.5general·Claude Opus 4.5coding·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 4.5
#185 by perf·#7 by attention
MiniMax M2.7
#127 by perf·#15 by attention
Best value
MiniMax M2.7
24.3x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
MiniMax M2.7
67.3 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
5 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude Opus 4.5MiniMax M2.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +71.5
Claude Opus 4.5
1468.5
MiniMax M2.7
1397.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +54.8
Claude Opus 4.5
1469.8
MiniMax M2.7
1415.0
Proofbench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +33.0
Claude Opus 4.5
36.0
MiniMax M2.7
3.0
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +18.1
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.1
MiniMax M2.7
45.1
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +26.8
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.7
MiniMax M2.7
37.0
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding | 1468.5 | 1397.0 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1469.8 | 1415.0 |
Proofbench | 36.0 | 3.0 |
Terminal Bench Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence. | 63.1 | 45.1 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 63.7 | 37.0 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K tokens (~100 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.30 | $1.20 | 205K tokens (~102 books) | $5.25 |