Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Anthropic) against MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax).
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary parameters
Enterprise software engineering, full-repo refactoring, and agentic workflows.
MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
Developed by MiniMax · Proprietary Sparse Coding MoE parameters
Low-latency interactive IDE code completions at 165 tokens/sec, SWE-bench Verified bug fixes (73.8%), terminal automation, and budget-optimized pull request reviews.
| Metric | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.3% | 73.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.1% | 81.2% |
| MATH-500 | 96.2% | 92.4% |
| Context Window | 200,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $3.00 | $0.10 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $15.00 | $0.40 |