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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs MiniMax M2.1
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 63.3K more tokens in context window than MiniMax M2.1. MiniMax M2.1 is $16.70 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family that balances response quality and efficiency for coding, agentic tasks, and analytical work. 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 4.5 targets use cases that require a balance of throughput and reasoning depth, including code generation, data analysis, and multi-step agentic pipelines.
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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.
2 months newer
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
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 Sonnet 4.5
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 4.5
3 providers
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
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MiniMax M2.1
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:3
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MiniMax M2.1
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1