Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 4 Sonnet
50
MiniMax M2.7
53
Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+19.0 difference
Claude 4 Sonnet
MiniMax M2.7
$3 / $15
$0.3 / $1.2
40 t/s
45 t/s
1.33s
2.53s
200K
200K
Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
MiniMax M2.7 has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 53 versus 50. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Claude 4 Sonnet is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M2.7. That is roughly 12.5x on output cost alone.
MiniMax M2.7 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 53 to 50.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.7 versus 53.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench Hard is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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