Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
85
MiniMax M3
76
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #7 · MiniMax M3 #12
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+3.0 difference
Coding
+5.9 difference
Multimodal
+0.6 difference
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
MiniMax M3
$5 / $25
$0.3 / $1.2
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Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 85 to 76. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72.9 against 67. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 78% to 70.1%. MiniMax M3 does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M3. That is roughly 20.8x on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M3 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 85 to 76. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 78% and 70.1%.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 67. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 71.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MiniMax M3 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 64.3. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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