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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 2026-09-23.

	MiniMax: MiniMax M3	Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest
Vendor	minimax	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	47.2	-
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	48.2	-

Who wins by task?

Task	MiniMax: MiniMax M3	Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest
SQL Generation	139	129
Code Review	141	124
Code Completion	132	114
Code Refactoring	143	124
Bug Fixing	145	128
Unit Test Generation	129	120
Code Documentation	136	122
Regex Writing	124	118
CI/CD Pipelines	125	116
Frontend Component Design	127	122
Data Analysis	131	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	135	125
ETL Scripting	134	120
JSON Extraction	131	122
Bulk Data Labeling	129	120
OCR / Document Parsing	133	127
Table Extraction from PDFs	133	127
Long-Document Summarization	145	125
Short-Form Summarization	126	114
Blog Post Writing	127	117

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