Claude Opus 4 vs MiniMax M1 40K
Wins 3 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Claude Opus 4 is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 24 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the four areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude Opus 4 pulls ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+28.8points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+16.9points ahead
- Keeps track of context across a multi-turn chatMulti-Challenge+13.9points ahead
Where MiniMax M1 40K pulls ahead
- Questions about very long textsLongBench v2+5.4points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 24 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Opus 4
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Opus 4 by 28.831.12.3+28.8
- SWE-bench VerifiedClaude Opus 4 by 16.972.555.6+16.9
- SciCodeClaude Opus 4 by 239.837.8+2
ReasoningClaude Opus 4
- GPQA DiamondClaude Opus 4 by 11.479.668.2+11.4
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Opus 4 by 4.512.37.8+4.5
Long documentsEven
- AA-LCRClaude Opus 4 by 13.669.355.7+13.6
- LongBench v2MiniMax M1 40K by 5.455.661+5.4
Following instructionsClaude Opus 4
- Multi-ChallengeClaude Opus 4 by 13.958.644.7+13.9
- IFBenchClaude Opus 4 by 12.553.741.2+12.5
Other results15 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude Opus 4 by 41.873.431.6+41.8
- AIME 2024MiniMax M1 40K by 35.148.283.3+35.1
- OpenAI-MRCR (128k)MiniMax M1 40K by 27.248.976.1+27.2
- ZebraLogicMiniMax M1 40K by 20.859.380.1+20.8
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Opus 4 by 19.93414.1+19.9
- TAU-bench (retail)Claude Opus 4 by 13.681.467.8+13.6
- AA IntelligenceClaude Opus 4 by 10.620.610+10.6
- LiveCodeBenchClaude Opus 4 by 8.170.462.3+8.1
- MMLU-ProClaude Opus 4 by 686.680.6+6
- LiveCodeBench (24/8~25/5)MiniMax M1 40K by 5.756.662.3+5.7
- SimpleQAClaude Opus 4 by 4.922.817.9+4.9
- FullStackBenchClaude Opus 4 by 2.770.367.6+2.7
- MATH-500 (EM)MiniMax M1 40K by 1.694.496+1.6
- AIME 2025tie75.574.6tie
- TAU-bench (airline)tie59.660tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Opus 4 or MiniMax M1 40K?
Claude Opus 4 wins three of the four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning and following instructions. MiniMax M1 40K wins none. They are level on long documents.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Opus 4. It wins 3 of the 3 coding tests both models report; MiniMax M1 40K wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 24 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 9 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 15 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.