MiniMax M3 vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Detailed comparison of capabilities, features, and performance.

MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
VS
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Anthropic
Feature MiniMax M3 Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)
AI Lab MiniMax Anthropic
Context Size 524,288 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Max Output Size 64,000 tokens 64,000 tokens
Frontier Model Yes Yes
Vision Support No Yes
Description MiniMax's 428B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, sparse attention, function calling, and strong long-horizon coding and agentic performance. The latest Claude 4.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic with maximum reasoning enabled, 200k reasoning tokens in 1M context.

Try both models in your workspace

Access both MiniMax M3 and Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking) in a single workspace without managing multiple API keys.

Create your workspace