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Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax M2
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
MiniMax M2 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5 · MiniMax M2 are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 5
#21 by perf·#9 by attention
MiniMax M2
#20 by perf·#11 by attention
Best value
MiniMax M2
20.0x better value than Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
4.6 pts/$
$15.00/M
MiniMax M2
92.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.30 | $1.20 | 205K tokens (~102 books) | $5.25 |