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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs MiniMax M1 40K

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 20.5.

Anthropic · MiniMax · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 20.5, ranking #2 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 58.3 and ranks #2 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose MiniMax M1 40K

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
MiniMax M1 40K
MiniMax
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
58.3
#2
20.5
#210
Reasoning
56.8
#2
20.7
#199
Coding
48.6
#2
8.0
#197
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

2 shared
Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5
MiniMax M1 40K
Math
37.6#30
18.1#193
Tool use
34.3#2
12.9#112
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

47 reported for Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 16 for MiniMax M1 40K

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and MiniMax M1 40Kdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax M1 40K
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Oct 09 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas MiniMax M1 40K does not.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

MiniMax M1 40K

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while MiniMax M1 40K uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

MiniMax M1 40K

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on 2026-09-28, while MiniMax M1 40K was released on 2025-06-16.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 16 months newer than MiniMax M1 40K.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Sep 28, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.3yr newer
MiniMax M1 40K

Jun 16, 2025

1.3 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while MiniMax M1 40K's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Sonnet 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without MiniMax M1 40K's cutoff date.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Jun 2026

MiniMax M1 40K

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and MiniMax M1 40K side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs MiniMax M1 40K.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or MiniMax M1 40K?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.3 to 20.5. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is made by Anthropic and MiniMax M1 40K is made by MiniMax. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Sonnet 5.5 compare to MiniMax M1 40K in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.3%, ArXivMath (with tools): 95.2%, Global-MMLU: 92.1%, MILU: 91.6%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 90.3%. MiniMax M1 40K scores MATH-500: 96.0%, AIME 2024: 83.3%, MMLU-Pro: 80.6%, ZebraLogic: 80.1%, OpenAI-MRCR: 2 needle 128k: 76.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and MiniMax M1 40K?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and MiniMax M1 40K supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Sonnet 5.5 and MiniMax M1 40K?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (58.3 vs 20.5), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs MIT). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 5.5 and MiniMax M1 40K?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and MiniMax M1 40K is developed by MiniMax.

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