Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 leads with 2.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4.5 offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Minimax M 2.5 is $28.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5, released by Anthropic in November 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family built for demanding reasoning tasks, advanced code generation, and complex agentic workflows. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with configurable effort levels. Opus 4.5 targets deep analytical work, multi-step tool orchestration, and applications requiring sustained reasoning across long, complex tasks.
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 Opus 4.5
Anthropic
2025-11-01
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax