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MiniMax M2.7 vs Claude Opus 4.5

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.5 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
MiniMax M2.7
#32 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Claude Opus 4.5
#113 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
28.0x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
MiniMax M2.7
84.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
Claude Opus 4.5
3.0 pts/$
$15.00/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
minimax logo
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
MiniMax M2.7Claude Opus 4.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +37.5
MiniMax M2.7
1427.7
Claude Opus 4.5
1465.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +64.7
MiniMax M2.7
1403.0
Claude Opus 4.5
1467.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkMiniMax M2.7Claude Opus 4.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1427.71465.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1403.01467.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
minimax logoMiniMax M2.7$0.30$1.20197K tokens (~98 books)$5.25
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00