# Claude 4 Opus Thinking vs MiniMax M1 80k

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 4 Opus Thinking and MiniMax M1 80k across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-4-opus-thinking-vs-minimax-m1-80k
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude 4 Opus Thinking and MiniMax M1 80k share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking has the larger published context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 80K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 27.41 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 4 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M1 80k public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 56% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 65% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M1 80k public-lane score: 68.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M1 80k public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 76.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M1 80k public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M1 80k public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Opus Thinking | MiniMax M1 80k | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 75.5% | 76.9% | MiniMax M1 80k |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 96.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude 4 Opus Thinking and MiniMax M1 80k?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [MiniMax M1 80k vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-minimax-m1-80k)

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