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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs MiniMax M2.1
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 63.3K more tokens in context window than MiniMax M2.1. MiniMax M2.1 is $16.70 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.
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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.
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MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
10 months newer
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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MiniMax M2.1
Input:$0.20
Output:$1.10($16.70 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2024-10
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
3 providers
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
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MiniMax M2.1
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:3
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MiniMax M2.1
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1