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Claude Sonnet 4 vs Minimax M 2.5
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 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 Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
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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.
9 months newer
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Minimax M 2.5
Input:$0.30
Output:$1.20($16.50 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude Sonnet 4
2025-01
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 Sonnet 4
3 providers
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
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Minimax M 2.5
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Claude Sonnet 4
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:3
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Minimax M 2.5
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1