Model comparison
MiniMax M1 vs Claude 4 Sonnet
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
MiniMax M1
Not scored
value score
Claude 4 Sonnet
91
value score
MiniMax M1 ctx
—
Claude 4 Sonnet ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Claude 4 Sonnet91
Attribute tape
| Field | MiniMax M1 | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | minimax | Anthropic |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | $3/1M in · $15/1M out |
| Value score | — | 91 |
| Summary | MiniMax M1 is an open-weight hybrid Mixture-of-Experts reasoning LLM with 456B total parameters, 45.9B active per token, and a 1 million token context window, released by MiniMax under Apache 2.0. It targets long-context understanding, software engineering, mathematics, and agent-style tool-use workflows. | Balanced Claude model for coding and agents. |