Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 77.3 against 56.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 65.4% to 57%.
Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M2.7. That is roughly 62.5x on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for MiniMax M2.7.
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.6
72.6
MiniMax M2.7
57
Claude Opus 4.6
77.3
MiniMax M2.7
56.2
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall, 76 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 65.4% and 57%.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.3 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 57. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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