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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-28.

	MiniMax: MiniMax M3	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest
Vendor	minimax	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	77.2	-
Input Price	$0.30/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$5.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	200,000
Max Output	512,000	64,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	73.3	-
ai_index_agentic	58.3	-
ai_index_coding	96.6	-

Who wins by task?

Task	MiniMax: MiniMax M3	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest
SQL Generation	167	129
Code Review	162	124
Code Completion	133	114
Code Refactoring	160	124
Bug Fixing	173	128
Unit Test Generation	151	120
Code Documentation	142	122
Regex Writing	134	118
CI/CD Pipelines	141	116
Frontend Component Design	143	122
Data Analysis	164	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	125
ETL Scripting	151	120
JSON Extraction	147	122
Bulk Data Labeling	135	120
OCR / Document Parsing	145	127
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	127
Long-Document Summarization	156	125
Short-Form Summarization	131	114
Blog Post Writing	138	117

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