Claude Opus 5.5 vs MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) against MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview (MiniMax).

Claude Opus 5.5

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Reasoner parameters

Autonomous enterprise codebase migrations, GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, SWE-bench Pro issue resolution (89.9%), and CodeRabbit automated reviews.

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 Opus 5.5 MiniMax M3.1-Flash-Preview
SWE-bench Verified 89.9% 73.8%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 81.2%
MATH-500 97.2% 92.4%
Context Window 500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $4.00 $0.10
Output Pricing (per 1M) $20.00 $0.40