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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
Vendor	anthropic	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	91.6	77.0
Input Price	$1.00/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$5.00/M	$0.60/M
Context Window	1,000,000	524,288
Max Output	128,000	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	91.2	74.9
ai_index_agentic	82.0	59.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
SQL Generation	172	167
Code Review	168	162
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	165	160
Bug Fixing	182	174
Unit Test Generation	155	151
Code Documentation	143	142
Regex Writing	136	134
CI/CD Pipelines	145	141
Frontend Component Design	147	143
Data Analysis	172	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	153
ETL Scripting	155	151
JSON Extraction	140	148
Bulk Data Labeling	126	135
OCR / Document Parsing	147	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	145
Long-Document Summarization	160	157
Short-Form Summarization	123	131
Blog Post Writing	141	138

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →