Claude 4.1 Opus vs MiniMax M2.7

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

MiniMax M2.7 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 57 to 51. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiniMax M2.7's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57 against 43.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 43.3% to 57%. Claude 4.1 Opus does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

MiniMax M2.7

Claude 4.1 Opus

43.3

MiniMax M2.7

57

43.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
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Toolathlon
46.3%
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MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
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MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

74.5

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

74.5%
SWE-bench Verified
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SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
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SWE Multilingual
76.5%
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Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
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VIBE-Pro
55.6%
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NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

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Knowledge

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74%
SimpleQA
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Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 43.3% and 57%.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4.1 Opus or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 43.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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