Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 leads with 6.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $4.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Overall, Minimax M 2.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5, released by Anthropic in October 2025, is a fast, efficient large language model from the Claude 4.5 family optimized for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking capabilities. Haiku 4.5 targets latency-sensitive applications such as real-time assistants, document classification, and lightweight agentic tasks where rapid response times are a primary requirement.
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 Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-01
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Haiku 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude Haiku 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Haiku 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax