# Claude Sonnet 5 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 5 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 5 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 Sonnet 5 leads overall 66.72 to 47.85.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 64.6 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 29.1 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 74.5% and 48.7%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Sonnet 5 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 66.72 | 47.85 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 64.6 (Supported · #13/117)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 29.1 (Supported · #82/117)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.5% | 48.7% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| ApprenticeBench | 16% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 57% | 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 |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 40.40% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 60 (Supported · #20/143)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 36 (Supported · #77/143)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | 56.2% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 78.3% | 76.5% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multimodal | 28.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 61.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.4% | 79.9% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | 73.8% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| cursorBench40 | 34.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 51.9% | 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 |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 27.04% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 76.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 78.4 (#15/50)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 88.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 64.2 (Supported · #27/169)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43 (Supported · #86/169)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 31.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | 86.6% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.5% | 80.4% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 91.6 (#10/124)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Sonnet 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 5 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 64.6 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 29.1 for MiniMax M2.7.

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

Claude Sonnet 5 currently has 26 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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