# Claude Opus 4.6 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-6-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall 69.29 to 55.14.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 52.6 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 93 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Vibe Code Bench in Coding, with scores of 57.57% and 27.04%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Opus 4.6 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 69.29 | 55.14 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 34 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 50 (Supported · #58/153)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #110/153)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | 57% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| BrowseComp | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 70.4% | 48.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| DeepSearchQA | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | 40.40% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 56.5 (Supported · #37/152)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.6 (Estimated · #68/152)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.6% | 75.4% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.4% | 56.2% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-Rebench | 65.3% | 51.9% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| React Native Evals | 84.1% | 71.4% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 57.57% | 27.04% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 26.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 59.5 (#28/48)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 77.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 67.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 61.1 (Estimated · #34/183)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #90/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 87.0% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 89.1% | 80.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| HLE | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 14.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 52.6 (#78/123)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 93 (#10/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 58.6 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 99.8% | 80.0% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 40.700% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 22.900% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 52.6 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 93 for MiniMax M2.7.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.6 currently has 34 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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