Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $16.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.
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 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2024-10
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Minimax M 2.5
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax