Claude Sonnet 4 vs MiniMax M1 40K
Wins 4 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 20 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.
Long documents rests on a single test.
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 Sonnet 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+17.1points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+14.6points ahead
Where MiniMax M1 40K pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 20 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Sonnet 4
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Sonnet 4 by 28.831.12.3+28.8
- SWE-bench VerifiedClaude Sonnet 4 by 17.172.755.6+17.1
- SciCodeClaude Sonnet 4 by 2.24037.8+2.2
ReasoningClaude Sonnet 4
- GPQA DiamondClaude Sonnet 4 by 9.577.768.2+9.5
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Sonnet 4 by 2.910.77.8+2.9
Following instructionsClaude Sonnet 4
- IFBenchClaude Sonnet 4 by 13.554.741.2+13.5
- Multi-ChallengeClaude Sonnet 4 by 12.457.144.7+12.4
Other results12 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.
- AIME 2024MiniMax M1 40K by 39.943.483.3+39.9
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude Sonnet 4 by 3364.631.6+33
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Sonnet 4 by 23.537.614.1+23.5
- TAU-bench (retail)Claude Sonnet 4 by 12.780.567.8+12.7
- AA IntelligenceClaude Sonnet 4 by 8.918.910+8.9
- ZebraLogicMiniMax M1 40K by 6.473.780.1+6.4
- LiveCodeBenchClaude Sonnet 4 by 6.268.562.3+6.2
- AIME 2025MiniMax M1 40K by 4.170.574.6+4.1
- MMLU-ProClaude Sonnet 4 by 3.183.780.6+3.1
- MATH-500 (EM)MiniMax M1 40K by 29496+2
- SimpleQAMiniMax M1 40K by 215.917.9+2
- TAU-bench (airline)tie6060tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4 or MiniMax M1 40K?
Claude Sonnet 4 wins all four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. MiniMax M1 40K wins none.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 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 20 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 8 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 12 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.