# Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 5 and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-5-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 5 leads overall 80.66 to 63.91.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 88.7 for Claude Opus 5 and 52 for MiniMax M3.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is OSWorld 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 70.6% and 4.6%.
- MiniMax M3 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- MiniMax M3 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | null | 1M |
| Overall Score | 80.66 | 63.91 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 73 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Opus 5
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 77.4 (Supported · #2/151)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 43.2 (Supported · #106/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 90.8% | 83.5% | Claude Opus 5 |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp (10-agent, prerelease) | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 70.6% | 4.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| MCP Atlas | 85.8% | 74.2% | Claude Opus 5 |
| MCP-Atlas claim coverage | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Anthropic harness) | 23.58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Anthropic harness) | 93.74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 11.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 73.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 23.5 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 26.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 84.6% | 53.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 70.1% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |
| BankerToolBench | Coming soon | 76.1% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 19.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 75.6 (Supported · #3/183)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #68/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 27 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 96% | 80.5% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 79.2% | 59% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | 68.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 63.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 52.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (episode 1) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 96.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.0% | 82.2% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 97.0% | 75.0% | Claude Opus 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.0% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.1% | Coming soon |
| VIBE V2 | Coming soon | 50.1% | Coming soon |
| SVG-Bench | Coming soon | 63.7% | Coming soon |
| KernelBench Hard | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 48.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 88.7 (#2/48)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 52 (#34/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 29.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.366 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.821 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (tools) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.9% | 45.1% | Claude Opus 5 |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 75.6 (#13/22)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 78.5 (#5/22)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Opus 5
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 82.1 (Supported · #3/181)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 53.9 (Supported · #65/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | 67.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 57.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 59.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 90.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProteinGym Hard | 47.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Organic chemistry V2 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 61.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | 92.7% | Claude Opus 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.6% | 84.2% | Claude Opus 5 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.5 (#4/120)

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMO 2026 | 42/42 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (no tools) | 60.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (tools) | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (no tools) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (tools) | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 5 or MiniMax M3?

Claude Opus 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 5 and MiniMax M3?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 88.7 for Claude Opus 5 and 52 for MiniMax M3.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 5 currently has 73 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M3 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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