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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by thelinuxkid on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:27PM (#47221953)
MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17x-20x cheaper….why isn’t anyone talking about this?
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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by necovek on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:34PM (#47222069)
Sounds like one peculiar benchmark that a particular model could be trained on.

Btw, how do you get 17-20x? Cost seems to be 0.07 to 0.55 (for 4.6, or 8x) and 0.75 (for 4.5 or 11x).

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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by thelinuxkid on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:27PM (#47222861)
The 17-20x is output token pricing: MiniMax M2.5 Standard at $1.20/M output vs Opus 4.6 at $25/M = ~21x. On input it's $0.30 vs $5.00 = ~17x. Blended (3:1 input:output) works out to roughly 19x. Curious where you're getting 0.07 and 0.55 — are you looking at M2.5 Lightning pricing or a different provider?
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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by necovek on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:27AM (#47229279)
I look at "Avg $" (average task cost per instance) from the page you linked to.
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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by acro-v on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:35PM (#47222076)
Because it's not true? The beating portion, not the cheaper portion.
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Re:MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17... by thelinuxkid on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:22PM (#47222782)
Why is it not true?

SWE bench is the standard bench to measure an LLMs coding capabilities

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