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Claude Opus 4.8 vs MiniMax M2
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.8 wins on 2/2 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.8 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.8
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 4.8
#75 by perf·#9 by attention
MiniMax M2
#20 by perf·#11 by attention
Best value
MiniMax M2
25.1x better value than Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8
3.7 pts/$
$15.00/M
MiniMax M2
92.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
2 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude Opus 4.8MiniMax M2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +237.5
Claude Opus 4.8
1534.1
MiniMax M2
1296.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +131.2
Claude Opus 4.8
1474.5
MiniMax M2
1343.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | MiniMax M2 |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding | 1534.1 | 1296.6 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1474.5 | 1343.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.30 | $1.20 | 205K tokens (~102 books) | $5.25 |