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Claude Opus 5 vs MiniMax M3

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Provider
Anthropic
MiniMax
Family
Claude 4
MiniMax M
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
4,096 tok
Released
2026-07-24
2026-06-01
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$5.00 /1M
$0.300 /1M
Output price
$25.00 /1M
$1.20 /1M
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
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Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, delivering intelligence close to Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It uses adaptive thinking to calibrate reasoning per task and supports a one million token context window at standard pricing. Unlike Fable 5, Opus 5 has no data retention requirements for general access.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Full spec →

MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Claude Opus 5
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Claude Opus 5 vs Grok 4.6
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Claude Opus 5 vs Glm-5.3
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Claude Opus 5 vs Kimi K3
anthropic/claude-opus-5 · moonshot/kimi-k3
Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max
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Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.8-27b
anthropic/claude-opus-5 · qwen/qwen3.8-27b
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Opus 5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# MiniMax M3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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