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Claude Opus 4.6vsMiniMax M2.5
Claude Opus 4.6 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. MiniMax M2.5 is 20x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
MiniMax M2.5
20x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · MiniMax
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-05
textvision
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax · released 2026-02-12
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 17 only Claude Opus 4.6 · 0 only MiniMax M2.5| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1497.5 ↗ | 1358.9 ↗ | +138.6 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.6 reports · 17 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 26.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 66% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 59.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 91.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 73.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 77.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 78.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 99.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MiniMax M2.5 reports · 0 | ||||
| MiniMax M2.5 reports nothing Claude Opus 4.6 does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.6 minus MiniMax M2.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 205K tokens | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $0.3 ↗ | MiniMax M2.5 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $1.2 ↗ | MiniMax M2.5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.03 ↗ | MiniMax M2.5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $1.5 | MiniMax M2.5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Released | 2026-02-05 | 2026-02-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 1 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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