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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	anthropic	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	90.4	77.2
Input Price	$1.00/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$5.00/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,000,000	1,048,576
Max Output	128,000	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	88.0	73.3
ai_index_agentic	77.0	58.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	171	167
Code Review	167	162
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	164	160
Bug Fixing	180	173
Unit Test Generation	154	151
Code Documentation	143	142
Regex Writing	136	134
CI/CD Pipelines	144	141
Frontend Component Design	146	143
Data Analysis	171	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	153
ETL Scripting	154	151
JSON Extraction	140	147
Bulk Data Labeling	126	135
OCR / Document Parsing	146	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	145
Long-Document Summarization	160	156
Short-Form Summarization	123	131
Blog Post Writing	140	138

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