Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 4.0K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $16.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Minimax M 2.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax