MiniMax M3 vs Claude 4.6 Sonnet

Detailed comparison of capabilities, features, and performance.

MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
VS
Claude 4.6 Sonnet

Claude 4.6 Sonnet

Anthropic
Feature MiniMax M3 Claude 4.6 Sonnet
AI Lab MiniMax Anthropic
Context Size 524,288 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Max Output Size 64,000 tokens 16,000 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 Sonnet 4.6 model from Anthropic

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