Claude 4 Sonnet vs MiniMax M2.7

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

Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

MiniMax M2.7

Claude 4 Sonnet

56.5

MiniMax M2.7

57

56%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
57%
OSWorld-Verified
Coming soon
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Toolathlon
46.3%
Coming soon
MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
Coming soon
MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

Claude 4 Sonnet

46.6

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

65%
HumanEval
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72.7%
SWE-bench Verified
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36%
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
48%
SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
Coming soon
SWE Multilingual
76.5%
Coming soon
Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
Coming soon
VIBE-Pro
55.6%
Coming soon
NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

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81%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
78%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

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69%
MuSR
Coming soon
82%
BBH
Coming soon
71%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
72%
MRCRv2
Coming soon

Knowledge

Coming soon

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86.5%
MMLU
Coming soon
73%
GPQA
Coming soon
71%
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
75%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
12%
HLE
Coming soon
67%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
71%
SimpleQA
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

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Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

83%
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

73%
AIME 2023
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75%
AIME 2024
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74%
AIME 2025
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69%
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
71%
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
70%
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
72%
BRUMO 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4 Sonnet or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 61 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 48% and 56.2%.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4 Sonnet or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 46.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 56.5. 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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