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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

anthropic logoAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5VSminimax logoMiniMax: MiniMax M3minimax/minimax-m3

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 wins on more metrics (5 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Intelligence Index53.4✓44.4
Coding Index71.5✓58.6
GPQA Diamond91%93%✓
Design Arena Elo1330✓1305
Speed (tokens/sec)7373
Latency2.5s828ms✓
Input price /M$2.00$0.300✓
Output price /M$10.00$1.20✓
Context window1M1.0M✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision
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