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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash

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 Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
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
131,072 tok
Released
2026-10-06
2026-10-22
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$2.00 /1M
$0.150 /1M
Output price
$10.00 /1M
$0.600 /1M
Tools
yes
—
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
—
JSON mode
yes
—
Reasoning
yes
—
Prompt caching
—
—
Batch API
—
—
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Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers the best combination of speed and intelligence, with adaptive thinking for coding, tool use, reasoning, and long-horizon work.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
Full spec →

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a fast, cost-efficient multimodal model for agentic tasks, coding, and computer use. It accepts text, image, and video input, always reasons before answering with adjustable effort, and has a 1M-token context window.

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

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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 Sonnet 5.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# MiniMax M3.1 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3.1-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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