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Claude Opus 4.8 vs MiniMax M2.7: pricing, Quality, Value, and benchmarks
Side-by-side buyer comparison built from the current published top 10 snapshot. Quality and Value stay deterministic, while editorial verdict excerpts remain clearly AI-labeled.
Verified evidenceVerified evidence
Claude Opus 4.8 Quality
100.0
MiniMax M2.7 Quality
31.3
Quality delta
+68.7Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Value delta
-13.9MiniMax M2.7 leads
Buyer summary
Claude Opus 4.8 leads Quality by 68.7 points. MiniMax M2.7 leads Value by 13.9 points.
Shared roster
Both pages link back to the same published roster and methodology, so the comparison stays on one deterministic evidence set.
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's newest Opus model, strongest for coding, agentic tasks, and complex professional work where the vendor-reported benchmark evidence applies.
Monthly price
Claude Pro: $20/month
App access
Claude
Conversation benchmark
~392 chats
Deterministic
Claude Pro public monthly plan reference.
Deterministic
Claude Opus 4.8 is available in Claude and through the Claude API.
MiniMax M2.7 is published here because it now has accepted SWE-Bench Pro evidence for the Coding view.
Monthly price
MiniMax Free: $0/month
App access
MiniMax
Conversation benchmark
Free tier
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
Deterministic scores
Quality and Value comparison
Claude Opus 4.8
Q 100.0
V 42.9
Quality rank 1 and value rank 6 in the current published roster.
MiniMax M2.7
Q 31.3
V 56.8
Quality rank 9 and value rank 2 in the current published roster.
Buyer access
Pricing, app access, and Conversation Value
Claude Opus 4.8
Deterministic3K tokens/chat
Claude Pro: $20/month
~392 chats
Hosted app: Claude
MiniMax M2.7
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
MiniMax Free: $0/month
Free tier
Hosted app: MiniMax
Benchmark evidence
Claude Opus 4.8
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
49.8%
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 release page | Vendor-reported Anthropic Opus 4.8 HLE no-tools score. Do not replace with tools-enabled or adaptive-effort HLE variants.
SWE-Bench Pro
Software engineering task resolution
69.2%
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 release page | Vendor-reported Anthropic Opus 4.8 SWE-Bench Pro score. Do not substitute SWE-Bench Verified.
Benchmark evidence
MiniMax M2.7
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
28.1%
Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation | Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic terminal task completion
43.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 official leaderboard | Official Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard. Rows are agent-plus-model results on terminal-bench@2.0 and are verified by a Terminal-Bench team member. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row. Retained from the previous published snapshot because the current live source did not expose this benchmark row.
Editorial excerpt
Claude Opus 4.8
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's newest Opus model, strongest for coding, agentic tasks, and complex professional work where the vendor-reported benchmark evidence applies.
Claude Opus 4.8 is under active editorial review. Current public ranking data is limited to accepted source/fact evidence for benchmarks, pricing, and context rather than AI-generated score changes.
Editorial excerpt
MiniMax M2.7
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
MiniMax M2.7 is published here because it now has accepted SWE-Bench Pro evidence for the Coding view.
MiniMax M2.7 is included in the coding leaderboard on the strength of sourced SWE-Bench Pro evidence. The row should be read as coding evidence first; buyer claims beyond pricing, access, and benchmark provenance should stay conservative until refreshed from first-party sources.
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