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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 2026-09-23.

	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	anthropic	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	63.9	47.2
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	63.0	48.2

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	141	139
Code Review	144	141
Code Completion	120	132
Code Refactoring	146	143
Bug Fixing	148	145
Unit Test Generation	131	129
Code Documentation	136	136
Regex Writing	125	124
CI/CD Pipelines	127	125
Frontend Component Design	129	127
Data Analysis	133	131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	135	135
ETL Scripting	136	134
JSON Extraction	122	131
Bulk Data Labeling	120	129
OCR / Document Parsing	134	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	134	133
Long-Document Summarization	147	145
Short-Form Summarization	118	126
Blog Post Writing	129	127

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