Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs MiniMax M2.7

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

Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 4.6's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 68.3 against 57. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 64% to 56.2%.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6

68.3

MiniMax M2.7

57

59.1%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
77%
BrowseComp
Coming soon
72.5%
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

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6

62.1

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

93%
HumanEval
Coming soon
79.6%
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
54%
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
64%
SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
23.7%
FLTEval
Coming soon
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

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

95%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
88%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

Coming soon

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93%
MuSR
Coming soon
88%
BBH
Coming soon
83%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
79%
MRCRv2
Coming soon
59%
ARC-AGI-2
Coming soon

Knowledge

Coming soon

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

99%
MMLU
Coming soon
89.9%
GPQA
Coming soon
95%
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
79.2%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
49%
HLE
Coming soon
85%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
48.5%
SimpleQA
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

Coming soon

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

89.5%
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Coming soon

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

91%
MGSM
Coming soon
89%
MMLU-ProX
Coming soon

Mathematics

Coming soon

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

99%
AIME 2023
Coming soon
99%
AIME 2024
Coming soon
98%
AIME 2025
Coming soon
95%
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
97%
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
96%
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
96%
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
97.8%
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is ahead overall, 76 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 64% and 56.2%.

Which is better for coding, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 62.1 versus 56.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 57. 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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