MiniMax M3 vs Claude Sonnet 5, 4.6 and Opus 5: Who Wins?
MiniMax M3 at $0.30/M vs Claude Sonnet 5 ($2), Sonnet 4.6 ($3) and Opus 5 ($5). Five agent tasks tested, the routing maths, and when the premium pays.
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MiniMax M3 at $0.30/M vs Claude Sonnet 5 ($2), Sonnet 4.6 ($3) and Opus 5 ($5). Five agent tasks tested, the routing maths, and when the premium pays.
Hands-on tests of MiniMax's unreleased M3.1 Flash coding model via its M-Code terminal agent, covering drone JSON logic, a 3D game build, and a SQL bug hunt.
M3 runs via Ollama Cloud or needs 75GB+ local. Qwen 3.7 has no open weights yet. Here's what actually works today for local agents.
Compare the best text to speech API options by price, latency, voice quality, cloning, streaming, and deployment fit.
MiMo V2.6 Pro tops open-weight models at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens. Agent setup, tool calling, real costs vs GLM-5.3 and MiniMax M3.
Learn how MiniMax voice clone works, which API route to use, what audio it accepts, and how to avoid common cloning failures.
Pricing update. Tracked live by BenchGecko · the AI Economy data platform.
On September 27, 2026 MiniMax confirmed M3.1-Flash-Preview inside MiniMax Code for everyday coding work, with a five-level reasoning resource slider and no full public model card this round.
Verified benchmarks, licences and first-party prices for GLM 5.2, Sonnet 4.6 and MiniMax M3, updated for GLM 5.3, Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.5.
Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”
From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.
Evaluate MiniMax H3 for business video with a cautious workflow
Turn a still image into a cinematic AI video with MiniMax H3. Learn a simple NightCafe-to-video workflow, from choosing a start image to describing movement.More
MiniMax Music 2.6 turns a prompt into music your agent can use right away. Describe the style, mood, lyrics, or use case, and generate a track inside the same workflow.
MiniMax M2 is now available on Ollama's cloud. It's a model built for coding and agentic workflows.
Discover how to generate quality videos with MiniMax Video-01. This guide covers its features, usage tips, and comparisons with traditional methods to enhance your video projects.
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